Can it be good if you lose your immediacy? Absolutely, this album roars. Press Club stormed towards us before Corona with two rounded, rough punk plates trained on genre classics such as Hüsker. Already at Endless Motion (2022) they opened a bit, now they have taken a good step forward again. The Australians commute on to all the ones that i love: inside between their punk roots, US college skirt and in British underground pop melodies.
They fit very well into the present, perhaps also because the band, but above all the voice of front woman Natalie Foster, has become more nuances. In songs such as the reef “Tightrope” or “Wilt”, it is still properly rumbled around, while “Staring at the Ceiling” is a power pop vignette that is almost reminiscent of the gogos.
Press Club is also good for the deceleration, which shapes the album in some parts and is new in its concise. When the bass in “Vacate” gets rid of as pretty as in a new order song or Natalie Foster in the opening “I am everything” to a guitar discusses its various attributions, this is actually the “gold mine” that she sings from.
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