NEW MUSIC:The Aussies are coming. Those staffing the new-music radars may be about to see a massive increase in traffic from the land down under. The Temper Trap were just the first wave, and bands such as Little Red, The Vasco Era, Summer Cats, The Panics and Oh Mercy will be coming your way in the next year.
We’re also tipping Eddy Current Suppression Ring. The band came into being at the Melbourne record-pressing plant where they worked. After a boozy Christmas party, they started goofing around in the factory’s studio and recorded what they produced.
While the name might suggest they’re fans of French physicist Leon Foucault, it was really something they overheard from a fellow plant worker. After all, they thought, no point in having a proper name because this band isn’t going to last very long.
That was 2003 and they’re still pumping out snarly, gnarly, punky-as-hell garage rock today. The more people heard The Ring, the more they liked them and the more they told friends to check them out.
ECSR recorded their first riff-heavy album in a couple of hours, but took a whole day to record current album Primary Colours. Since its release in Oz last year, people have been going nuts about it (the album won the Australian Music Prize). Now, it's time for folks elsewhere to get the Ring into their lives.
What you’ll get are a bunch of ragged, rowdy, feckless songs packed to the brim with nervy, edgy energy and tension. As furious guitars and pelting drums go about their business, frontman Brendan Huntley, who dons black gloves for the live shows to help him overcome stage fright, is at the heart of the action. Buckle up, it’s going to be a wild ride.
- www.ecsr.com.au
