One of the best bands in Australia return with their much anticipated new album Rain On The Hummingwire and the first single from it, Majesty, is a corker. Sonically it takes the palette of Cruel Guards further and adds in stadium rock drums and atmosphere, while tipping its hat to their fellow hometown legends, The Triffids and their 1980s masterpiece ‘Wide Open Road’.
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However, despite the potential for the track to veer in to bombastic territory, what makes gives it such resonance is the restraint used in the songwriting and chorus – it resists the urge to become a flag waving chest beater. Lyrically, front man Jae Laeffer is at his most political yet, questioning the need for Australia to have the remnants of colonial rule inveigling our political set-up. It’s easy for lyrics in this vein to come across as gauche or naïve, but with repeated lyrics, Laeffer may just have pulled it off.
