Cargo Records

Broadcasting Germs

It seems that the dissonant, vibrato-laden vocals are causing a reaction. Like all great voices. In the way that anything that sounds significantly different or that flies in the face of current vogue can often do. We like that. Safe music this is not.

The voice, along with teeth clenching top-end guitar squeal riding a bass-drum avalanche spewing from the stage makes it a little bit difficult for the scenesters to pontificate about the latest nu-rock, no-new wave band to come out of the local hair salon. That's right folks, theres no "industry vibe" or fashion rock ponce here! "Broadcasting Germs" was recorded in the latter half of 2003 in a small Collingwood café using equipment "borrowed" from unknowing sources. After months of deliberation over the sounds achieved from this session, the band decided they should recruit some big name engineers (Jonathan Burnside, Chris Thompson) to scrape the shit and see if they had given birth to a baby as opposed to a great big steaming turd. Thankfully it turned out to be a baby - albeit a rather ugly one. Naturally, like any proud parents, the boys are showing off their offspring to the interested public. Much like a Boys Next Door if they had come from the inner city wastelands of early Factory Manchester, Joy Division, PIL, Killing Joke, all killer references on this debut full length, and also the bludgeoning of Atomizer era Big Black melded to the self-destructo swagger of the Boys Next Door, a mightily impressive debut.

Track Listing

Safe in the System
Neutralise
The Doomstars
Ways to Meet Ends
Last Minute Intervention
At Sixes and Sevens
Radio unsound
The Blank Song
Disclosure