Useless Children – Sky Is Falling (2009)

Useless children are a noise rock band hailing from Melbourne. They released this gem in 2009 on Exo Records (they’ve since released another LP featuring a track with Rick Feedtime and they have a video clip for the song “Walk Away” featuring David Yeow as a creepy janitor). It was a bit of a relief finding something local and a bit lighter on the sludge side. Don’t get me wrong band’s like Dead, Inappropriate Tough Guy Behavior and Firewitch are great but… I have this theory (yet to be proven or perhaps not) that if all I listen to is sludge then I’ll turn into slime. Useless Children’s album Sky Is Falling is bit more punk or rock mabey, I’ve seen them called hardcore before but I’m not quite sure if the bill fits. Sky falling is a hard and fast experience, nice and riffy full distortion and broken wild screams from gifted Cinta Masters (drums / vocals also of The Emergency, Gold Tango and Aktion Unit) the kind of music that will leave you average noise rock enthusiast gleeful.

Useless Children – Sky Is Falling

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Kitchens Floor – Look Forward to Nothing (2011)

If apathy had a voice… Kitchens floor are a Brisbane band that remind me of someone going limp and being dragged on their face. There is this kind of dead beat, looser rock feel to the music that seems you can only earn though being beaten by life. Kitchens floor have been kicking it up and down the east coast for 3 or 4 years now leaving people feeling bleak and empty. Laying out tracks like raw acoustic tracks like “kidney infection” and downer pop like “116”, Look Forward to Nothing’s got a really slapped together kind of feel to it more so than your average lo-fi kindo’ band. There blasting deadpan often off key vocals are unwillingly complemented by swirls of semi attempted guitar solos embroiled into 20 minutes of short bittersweet tunes.

Kitchens Floor - 116

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