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THE DRONES – ” To Think I Once Loved You “

Posted: December 9, 2016 in MUSIC
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The group has taken a serious left turn with their seventh album, “Feelin Kinda Free”. “We said ‘fuck it’ and went spaz, It’s a pretty weird record and you can dance to it,” Liddiard said of the album. “It’s time to have a groovy Drones record. We’re sick of being a bunch of drags.” The bands single “Taman Shud” voted the Australian song of the year was one of the most compelling singles of last year, but good luck to anyone who hit the dance floor to its skittish rhythms.

Boredom, the sixth track on Feelin Kinda Free, is in a similar vein. If the Drones once came on like the mutant, brawling blues-punk offspring of the Birthday Party and Beasts of Bourbon, this sounds more like the mostly forgotten Australian post-punk.

“The best songs are like bad dreams,” mutters Liddiard  It’s a fabulous opening line – and what follows is a succession of nightmares.
The Angry Penguins movement of the 1940s was an interrogation, and rejection, of an earlier kind of Australian nationalism represented by the bush balladeers. Feelin Kinda Free is as decisive a repudiation, both of the Drones’ past and of the mythic, The dominant themes here are immigration and its attendant cousin, paranoia. And Then They Came For Me finds Liddiard “feeling like I’ve overstayed”.

Taman Shud and Boredom aside, Feelin Kinda Free slithers by like a serpent in search of its next meal. The feel is unhurried, but menacing. While the songs still stretch out like elastic, there are only eight of them, so at 41 minutes, the album doesn’t outstay its welcome. The emphasis is mostly on bass and percussion: guitars are heavily treated; frequently, you’d be forgiven for thinking there are no guitars at all.

The closest thing to anything from the Drones’ past is the agonised To Think That I Once Loved You, which sits squarely in the album’s centre without dragging it down. Otherwise, Feelin Kinda Free sounds like the work of a less dour and far more subversive band.

The Drones – To Think That I Once Loved You
Tropical Fuck Storm Records – From the album Feelin Kinda Free

The DRONES – ” Taman Shud “

Posted: November 17, 2016 in MUSIC
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The song’s title is inspired by an unsolved 1948 case of an unidentified man who turned up dead on Somerton Beach in South Australia — a case which was named after the phrase “tamám shud”, meaning “ended” or “finished” in Persian, which was printed on a scrap of paper found in the man’s trousers.

Here’s how The Drones explain the song’s relation to Mr Shud’s death:

“67 years later right-wingers rule the world uncontested because left-wingers earlier outlawed everybody’s right to call out people being assholes on the grounds that assholes also have the right to believe in the possibility of a leftist utopia in which nothing straight forward can ever be said. “Taman Shud is the result of that delusion and proof to the contrary.”

Taman Shud is the first single from The Drones’ highly-regarded seventh studio album,  The album will be the follow-up to 2013’s stellar I See Seaweed.

The Drones – Taman Shud 2015 –Tropical Fuck Storm Records