Album Review: The Keepaways - KA QLD

Brisbane trip punks The Keepaways have taken the mortar and pestle to almost every rock genre under the sun, and the results are sometimes brilliant but oft-times bizarre, pastiches of ill-fitting familiars.

Things start intriguingly enough with the electronic sine-melt creepers The Voight Glitch and Creepo, and the space-dub crawl of Smiles Go By On The Bus, Rainclouds Fill My Head and beat-heavy Disco are eccentric yet euphorically abrasive. Yet these bookend songs, like Year Of (a sub-industrial Alice In Chains) and Rise And Shine (a Gothic approach to Badmotorfinger-era Soundgarden), dilute the strangeness with mediocrity.