Ben Preece, Journalist

He talks candidly about his well-documented hiatus

"I’m terribly excited by playing new music with my friends and just being around the people that I love. This time, I plan to just have good people around me and stay in control."

A long-player that sits together as brilliantly as each song stands strong on its own

They chose to end with a version of Tiesto’s Feel It In My Bones, a song on which they featured.

Janie’s Got A Gun becomes an early highlight and drummer Joey Kramer takes it into a solo, something much too long and pretty unimpressive.

“It’s been really busy and I’m kind of exhausted but, at the same time, I like moving around all the time – it really keeps you on your toes."

"It’s a bit more rocky I reckon but so far, it’s not too far from the first record – I just think it’ll be a bit more developed and mature."

"With this record, it felt like we’ve experienced so much growth over the last six years writing with other people, we needed to take that growth to the next level internally."

"You can kind of tie in the origins of the band back to Newtown Festival and a bunch of milk crates."

“Since The Bamboos started out just over ten years ago, I guess they’ve influenced most of the bands going around Melbourne – The Cat Empire and that sort of thing."

One of the finest, most stylish and bravest musicians of the past 40 years – so irreplaceable.

Comedown Machine is reasonably solid overall, however unchallenging it may seem.