STILL SINGLE

A space for thoughts on music and culture, as written by Doug Mosurock and a select handful of individuals. This is intended as a supplement to our regular feature Still Single, published on Dusted Magazine. Updates will run here more frequently, and may feature writing on music not covered in the column. Compact discs are still not accepted for review -- we have more than enough vinyl and the occasional cassette to worry about.

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December 18, 2011

Per Purpose – Implicating More Than One 12” EP (Bedroom Suck)

RECOMMENDED

Aggressive/progressive dealings from a Brisbane trio (including Bedroom Suck CEO and current Kitchen’s Floor drummer Joe Alexander), playing the kind of complex, exciting, hyperbolic p-rock compartmentalized in the ‘90s. Though they have the post-HC flare with lots of yelling and stormy musicianship, there’s some really obtuse logic behind these songs, and where they go is less reminiscent of the Minutemen/Big Flame comparisons they got for their single, and more in line with Spasm Smash-era Trumans Water, all the guitar lines careening sharply upwards, the vocal delivery stressful and panicked, the nuts/bolts holding these songs together wound so tightly they’re about to strip the threads. Six longish songs that trade in memorable riffs for memorable, precarious construction, thoroughly angry but pleasantly free of the stock macho-man moves that tend to dominate this mode of expression. Another plus in the Australian column. (http://bedroomsuckrecords.com)
(Doug Mosurock)

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