Benny Doyle, Journalist

No stress, no studios, no time constraints... Ned Collette discusses his latest release with Wirewalker.

These are songs to disappear within, to tackle your problems head-on, but also to forget them.

Released from recording contract shackles, 28 Days are free to step up the tempo once again. Benny Doyle chats with a relaxed Damian Gardiner about their version of Chinese Democracy and older siblings leading the way.

There’s no denying the Sydneysider is destined for great things, but it’s a little too early to be taking people on a journey.

It’s awkward, dark and easy to like.

It seems like every time you try and pin down Jas Shaw and James Ford, they wriggle out from underneath your fingers.

The quartet fill the space pretty quickly, the thick drone of opener, Witch, setting the tone for the rest of the evening.

“You just learn how to deal with each other. Earlier on you come to blows a bit on the road because everyone is stressed out, but you realise that you’re just tired, which is obviously why you’re having a fight, so we just don’t fight anymore.”

The only reason Foundations doesn’t get full marks is because, frighteningly, this band still have so much more to offer.

Stone’s tunes stand up on their own, and all it does is awkwardly break up two angelic odes in the way of Let’s Forget All The Things That We Say and It’s All Okay, the latter, with its underlying intensity and constant rhythms