Album Review: The Perch Creek Family Jug Band - Jumping On The Highwire

18 March 2014 | 10:20 am | Scott Fitzsimons

Thankfully the best moments are intoxicating enough to throw the need for consistency out the railcar door, the band’s own coherency the only glue they need.



The Melbourne collective – most of whom are related – come into Jumping On The Highwire eager, road-refined and with a bag full of ideas. At times, too many ideas. With so many songwriters, Jumping On The Highwire never really settles into a rhythm, party-jigs backing into bleak murder ballads and Depression-era blues swings leading into round-the-campfire singalongs. Thankfully the best moments are intoxicating enough to throw the need for consistency out the railcar door, the band's own coherency the only glue they need.