Album Review: The Aves - Good News

Seamlessly weaving tales from the band's travels across the US with those of their home in suburban Adelaide, the debut LP from The Aves exists in a place that feels exotic and also truly close to home, highlighting the stranger elements of Australia's multi-national culture.

This clean-as-a-whistle collection of garage-pop tunes mixes impressive musicianship with an array of influences, culminating in a honed and worldly pop experience. Repetition in melodies and structure is where this record really falls, but the true strength of this outing lies in its lyrics — ripe with quirk, imagination and heart — which give the album its honest-yet-thinly veiled mystique.