Psychedelic Porn Crumpets
Formed in 2014, the Perth experimental quintet have quickly become one of Australia’s hottest prospects, uncovering all kinds of weirdness and psychotic fuzz in their deceptively concise and punchy sonic warfare. Debut albumHigh Visceral {Part 1} set the bar incredibly high from the off, quickly followed by {Part 2} a year later, with landmark release And Now for the Whatchamacallit hitting the shelves in 2019 and racking up millions of streams on Spotify in very little time.
Fourth full-length Shyga! The Sunlight Mound, set for release in January 2021, marks the biggest step in their evolution yet – melding all manner of quizzical and heart-palpitating sounds into their uncompromising orchestra of noise…
“I wanted something that could encapsulate loads of fun and sound a bit strange,” explains founding singer/guitar Jack McEwan, who was given first place in MusicRadar’s top ten round-up of the best new guitar players in the world right now and prefers his crumpets on the savoury side. “Like painting a colourful image of this distant world.”
Shyga! The Sunlight Moundlooks set to be a career-defining record for the Perth quintet. There are already big plans to put together a socially distanced tour on home soil and their own fringe festival, in which they will be examining the achievements of mankind from an unorthodox lens. “I really want to do this space opera where you have this robot drone who goes around scanning galaxies and alternate realities,” grins Jack. “Eventually he finds earth, so it’s from the perspective of this drone – it’s his summation of the entire history of earth. I guess to some extent what we’re doing is kinda fictional!”
There is, however, nothing fictional about the hype surrounding the group ahead of what will undoubtedly be the most important album of their career. But as with all great things, you might just have to see it and hear it in order to believe it…