Peter BibbyBibby is a young Leo diCaprio with a partiality for sardonic malapropisms, skewed bucolic ballads and a voice trammelled into broken glass and dirt-flecked whiskey.
It’s a weirdly heady mix, and on excellently monikered debut, Butcher/Hairstylist/Beautician, introduces a carnivalesque series of baroque characters, all presented with a wild-eyed energy. The share-house recollections of Goodbye Johnny, the broken balladry of Red XF Falcon, the brilliantly wasted ramshackle debauchery of Friends, all highlight an intrinsically distinctive voice. And with song titles like Hates My Boozin’, Stinking Rich and Cunt, Bibby paints a deliciously perturbing picture of Australian shambolic chic.
