The BasicsEnthusiasts of Wally’s other guise should realise the only connection between this and that song of former acquaintance is it probably paid for this to exist.
From title track on, this is pure Midnight Oil/Weddings Parties political diatribe – exactly what this country needs to wake up to itself. There’s some dark wit: Tunaomba Saidia is African shanty stringband tale of the pathetic human cargo some seem so eager to ‘turn back’, while Good Times, Sunshine! is surf-pop with slight sneer. It’s brave, caring and good. Pity we currently can’t say the same about our nation.
