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Friday, May 3, 2024

The Rebel Astronauts

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Originating in Canberra, Australia before relocating to Sydney, The Rebel Astronauts existed in this pocket of Australian slowcore and post-rock that upon reflection, looks perfect in every way possible.

Across two EP releases, The Rebel Astronauts members Bree, Emma, Matt, and Tom would often update their listeners through their website www.therebelastronauts.com.au on their upcoming live shows, photos, there whereabouts, and what their release plans were - a direct connection to the people that cared about them.

Founded in 1996, The Rebel Astronauts released a stream of singles, splits, and EP's over the years and it is believed across the internet that they disbanded in 2002. However, with a search through their website via the wayback machine it can be seen that the band was still playing shows and active in their surrounding music communities throughout 2002-2004.

In addition to this, sometime in 2004 a post was made promoting two shows (one with 2 Litre Dolby) and brought to readers' attention was some info regarding an unreleased record they had been working on over the previous couple of years called, "Studies In Light".

Claimed to be set for release in November 2005, this sadly appears to be the only information regarding this release. They mentioned they had been working on the record with Emma Hoy who had worked on previous music with the band, and it can be assumed that it would go out through 9th Division Records again - so if I ever figure out how to reach any of this people, maybe we'll get to hear this unreleased record...

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live footage:

1. N/A

discography:

title: The Rebel Astronauts - Stolen Paper Doll / Train [Incomplete]

release date: 1998

format: 7"

tracklist:

1. Stolen Paper Doll

2. Train

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title: The Rebel Astronauts - Aeroplane Drops Parachute By Night

release date: 2000

format: CD

tracklist:

1. Dux Episcop

2. Pistols Smoke Like Cigars

3. Comic Killers

4. Might Get Out

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title: The Rebel Astronauts / Purplene - Split

release date: 2001

format: 7"

tracklist:

1. Purplene - Rinse & Stack

2. The Rebel Astronauts - Magnetic

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title: The Rebel Astronauts - Windmills vs. Shrapnel

release date: 2002

format: CD

tracklist:

1. Baxter Moon

2. Lights And Mirrors

3. Patricia Lake

4. Like Green Waves

5. Slow Meeting

6. Eraser End

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title: The Rebel Astronauts - Live Recordings & Rarities

release date: N/A

format: MP3

tracklist:

1. Guiding Spheres (Unreleased)

2. Guiding Spheres (Live at The Australian Music Show - 2002)

3. Magnetic (Live at The Australian Music Show - 2002)

4. Slow Meeting (Live at The Australian Music Show - 2002)

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resources:

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20020801000000*/www.therebelastronauts.com

2. https://www.discogs.com/artist/354123-Rebel-Astronauts

3. https://musicbrainz.org/artist/3d6be59f-7a08-4020-b89d-97d2cc6f7fbe

4. https://brainwashed.com/index.php/reviews-easyblog/the-rebel-astronauts-qwindmills-vs-shrapnelq

5. https://www.last.fm/music/The+Rebel+Astronauts

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FGDhiBRdqc

Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Love Like... Electrocution

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Love Like… Electrocution was an incredibly influential emoviolence band from Adelaide, Australia. They existed, roughly, from 2002 to 2006.

Members Garth, Dave, Brett, Tom, Rowan and Timmy practiced for a week before their first show and somehow managed to go through through four guitars, a microphone and a light fitting. They had another gig a few weeks later, then decided to record their first EP, "She Was Red Hot".

They traveled to Melbourne for a weekend in early August 2002, returned and played around Adelaide for a few months before Tom (vocals) decided to leave the band and concentrate on his other band, St Alban's Kids, situated in Melbourne.

The release of their second record was in late May 2003 which collected five new tracks and the "She Was Red Hot" EP. The EP had sold out and was in demand so they decided to re-release it with new tracks as a full length.

Following significant lineup changes and local favor, they toured extensively throughout Australia with the likes of The Dillinger Escape Plan, The Bronx and Death From Above, and released a split EP with This Night Creeps to coincide with their New Zealand tour, before finally disbanding towards the end of 2005.

Something about this band just really does stand head and shoulders above nearly all others, hence why they are still (kind've) spoken about to this very day. A true cornerstone of the Australian emo lineage.

live footage:

1. N/A

discography:

title: Love Like... Electrocution - She Was Red Hot

release date: 2002

format: CD

tracklist:

1. With Horses In Her Eyes, She Spat Like A Wildcat

2. Hunger Like Numb Toes On An Oslo Sidewalk

3. Das Plague (French For Germans)

4. This Charade Has Lasted Well Past The Curtains Fall

5. The Tropics Of Cancer, Capricorn And A Smashed Face

6. The Graduate Walks With A Distant Gait

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title: Love Like... Electrocution - S/T

release date: 2002

format: CD & 12"

tracklist:

1. We Only Fuck To Black Sabbath Vol. 4.

2. Tips For Avoiding The Clap. 1. I Wouldn't Piss On A Scorpion If It Was On Fire.

3. Das Plague (French For Germans).

4. With Horses In Her Eyes, She Spat Like A Wildcat.

5. The Truth Of The Matter Is I Am Satan And On The Guitars We Have The Devils. This Is Devil Music.

6. Hunger Like Numb Toes On An Oslo Sidewalk.

7. The Tropics Of Cancer, Capricorn And A Smashed Face.

8. I May Have Cried A River For Him But He's No Depardieu.

9. This Charade Has Lasted Well Past The Curtains Fall.

10. We've Built Our Tombs And Now We're Sleeping In Them.

11. The Graduate Walks With A Distant Gait.

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title: Love Like... Electrocution / This Night Creeps - Split

release date: 2004

format: CDr

tracklist:

1. Love Always, Your Dearest Klaus Kinski

2. Drowning, In A Sea Of Pressed Shirts And Conscientious Suntans

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title: Love Like... Electrocution - Demo

release date: 2004

format: MP3

tracklist:

1. Love Always, Your Dearest Klaus Kinski

2. We've Built Our Tombs, Now We're Sleeping In Them

3. Upon Recovering, From My Last Bout Of Governmentality

4. In Bed For Months With Sat. Night Fever

5. Domicile Conjugal (Up And Down, In And Out)

6. Drowning, In A Sea Of Pressed Shirts & Conscientious Suntans

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resources:

1. https://adelaidemusic.fandom.com/wiki/Love_Like..._Electrocution

2. https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/13183/Love-Like...-Electrocution-Love-Like...-Electrocution/

3. https://sophiesfloorboard.blogspot.com/2023/02/love-like-electrocution.html

4. https://drownedinsound.com/releases/3106/reviews/5669-love-like-electrocution-she-was-red-hot

5. https://www.aversionline.com/view/love-like...-electrocution-s-t-cd

6. https://itsachugknocklife.blogspot.com/2011/08/love-like-electrocution.html

Bare Arms

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Bare Arms were a four-piece femme-fronted screamo band from the inner west of Sydney, Australia. They formed in mid-2008. One of the only quotes I could find online states...

"They were two boys and two girls. They were a band and acted as such."

They released one self-titled 5 track EP and appeared half a decade later on four way split compilation. May they rest in peace...

live footage:

1. N/A

discography:

title: Bare Arms - S/T

release date: 2009

format: Mini CDr

tracklist:

1. The Refrain

2. In the End, We're all Dead

3. In Space and Time

4. Permanent Traumatic Stress Disorder

5. South Coast Line

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title: 97-Shiki / Bare Arms / Inquiry Last Scenery / Milvains - Four Way Split

release date: 2014

format: CD

tracklist:

1. Omar Comin'!

2. In The Words Of Kerry King

3. #06

4. Berlin

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resources:

1. https://www.abc.net.au/triplejunearthed/artist/bare-arms/

2. https://www.last.fm/music/Bare+Arms

3. https://www.discogs.com/artist/4635222-Bare-Arms

4. https://tenzenmen.bandcamp.com/album/international-4-way-split

St. Alban's Kids

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St. Alban's Kids was a politically charged hardcore punk band from Adelaide, South Australia. They played a brand of chaotic punk that was quite unlike the majority of other outfits occupying that same niche.

Subsequently, they seemed to have been a major influence on later Australian acts like My Disco and Love Like… Electrocution among them. There seems to be very little information still out there about the band and their brief run.

This is also one of the only examples of a band on this archive actually existing on Spotify... who would've thought...

I love love love love those song titles.

St. Alban's Kids was Lachlan Vercoe, Nicholas Burchett, Sean Bailey, Thomas McFarlane

live footage:

1. N/A

discography:

title: St. Albans Kids - Demo

release date: 2001

format: CDr

tracklist:

1. Dialogue With A Consumer Product

2. Taking Pot-Shots At Dead Bodies

3. The Children Of Marx And Coca-Cola

4. Bridging Feldman And Foucalt

5. An Exercise In Self Affirmation

6. [Untitled]

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title: St. Albans Kids - Tales Of Late Night Excursions Into Urban Wastelands [A Political Economy Of Noise]

release date: 2002

format: Mini CDr

tracklist:

1. Dance On Road, Dance On Street, Dance On Face [An Introduction]

2. I Am Hiphop

3. Last Drinkers At The Modernist Hotel

4. The Children Of Marx And Coca-Cola

5. Barthes For Breakfast

6. And With That.... Summer's Kids Turned Into Winter's Adults

7. Seducing An Outdated Model Of Youth Enragement [Necrophilia! Necrophilia!]

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title: Off Minor / St Albans Kids - Split

release date: 2004

format: 7"

tracklist:

1. Disthentic Penetration

2. When We Were Just Days Away From Illiteracy

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resources:

1. https://www.discogs.com/artist/1925944-St-Albans-Kids

2. https://www.last.fm/music/St.+Alban%27s+Kids

Majorca

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Majorca was an screamo / almost emoviolence band from Melbourne, Australia. Incredibly little information about them seems to have stood the test of time. Furthermore, I can't seem to find any trace of their 2007 self-titled EP anywhere online. I will look harder one day...

Fortunately, there is a bizarre amount of live footage still available on YouTube - more so than any band I've covered so far. Their half of the split 10" with Eucalypt is seriously worthwhile.

Majorca was James Clarke, Scott Viney, Tara Jayne and Zakky Pidd.

live footage:

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buXSrqGG-54&t=2s

2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC3B0tN5q1o

3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBaACIgcKWY

4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVn1vvTIyvM

5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gViU00A_jnM

6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjv1bqdjmZ0

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