Album Review: Various - Spawn (Again): A Tribute To Silverchair

What a marvellously diverse band Silverchair was, and what interesting ride they took their many fans on across the course of their five album career.

Now, ten years after their last album Young Modern and 20 after the classic Freak Show, a who's who of Aussie rock, punk and metalcore acts have got together to pay tribute to the great three-piece. And they do a fabulous job.

From their early, grungy days, through the middle part of their career where they morphed into a powerhouse rock act, to the last record which put them on the quirky art-rock fringe, their great tracks are given even greater diversity in their delivery, purely due to the fact that ten different bands do ten different songs.

No one version deserves to be singled out as being superior to the others. Suffice it is to say that each band puts their own unique spin on the track they are covering, whilst maintaining the core essence and vibe of the song. One single minor disappointment is Columbus' rather ham-fisted attempt at the usually triumphant Straight Lines.

Aside from this however, this is a reverential and highly enjoyable tribute to a classic Aussie rock act.