It’s been four years since Sydney’s favourite garage-punks Straight Arrows released their 2010 debut full-length LP It’s Happening. Those four years haven’t been wasted, the band have been touring the USA, releasing albums in the UK, cassettes in the USA, 7” singles in the USA and Italy, gracing the stages of the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Festival and headlining Sydney Town Hall as part of Sydney Festival. Who said punk isn’t high culture?
2014 sees the release of their new record Rising, which was half recorded recorded at frontman Owen Penglis’s house and half recorded in Owen’s new Goliath Professional Record Studio in Potts Point, Sydney. The band had to move to the studio after Owen’s (now vacated) neighbour complained about the the garage punk fury ooozing though her walls.
Rising is an exciting follow up from one of this nation’s greatest garage rock bands. To celebrate its release (out now via Rice Is Nice) Owen has given us a (brief and cryptic) track by track run down of the record.
Introduction
“We didn’t want folks to have to sit through the long introduction of ‘Fruit of the Forest’ if they didn’t want to. A courtesy track.”
Fruit of the Forest
“Get in first. Take the fruit. See what happens.”
Can’t Stand It
“Anxiety, displeasure.”
Petrified
“Fixation, anxiety.”
Continental Son
“It’s OK to be honest, we still love you.”
Don’t Tell Me
“Sometimes you can’t commit, and sometimes you can’t tell how people look in the daylight.”
Rotten Teeth
“Reality. Getting robbed by junkies VS going to the dentist.”
Make Up Your Mind
“Decisions, decisions.”
Without Ya
“Love and bubblegum.”
Don’t Call My Name
“Don’t hassle the dead.”
Breakdown
“Love and anxiety”
Changing Colours
“Acceptance.”
Never Enough
“Keep it coming.”
Rising Album Tour
Fri 20th June @ The Brightside, Bris w/ TV Colours & Woodboot.
Sat 28th June @ Fishbowl, Newcastle w/ TV Colours, BLT and Gooch Palms.
Sat 12th June @ Northcote Social Club, Melb w/ TV Colours & Miss Destiny.
