Album Review: The Love Junkies - Cough And Splutter

Pugnacious Perth punklings The Love Junkies return for what will be the first of two EPs this year.

Cough And Splutter is a rollicking bluster of passive-aggressive bombast that will have fans of their album Blowing On The Devil's Strumpet doing cartwheels, if that can somehow be combined with moshing. "I can't help but be confused" they groan as if clattering through the messy 3am madness of the seediest parts of Northbridge, before hammering their way out with the power chords of No 2, one of their most brilliantly unhinged and unchained works to date.