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Review: 'Rumjacks, The'
'Sleepin’ Rough'   

-  Album: 'Sleepin’ Rough' -  Label: 'Four Four'
-  Genre: 'Folk' -  Release Date: '5th August 2016'

Our Rating:
They’re a rum-looking bunch, these Rumjacks: five guys, burly, beardy and bristling with tattoos, they have lived-in faces. Hailing from Sydney but drawing on Irish and Scottish music, their music infuses Celtic traditions – jaunty rabble-rousing knees-up tunes with pipes and whistles, banjos and fiddles – with punk guitars and snarling socio-political fury.

Being no-messin’ Aussies, they’re the voice of the working man and they tell it like it is: ‘sixteen straight shifts, bust a gut for bugger all / ‘Til the gaffer hits the bell & spits me outta hell’ they growl on ‘Wknd (Flash New Breeks)’. It’s relatable to the everyman.

Just as they work hard, they play hard, and there are no shortage of rowdy drinking songs here (‘A Fistful o’ Roses’, ‘“Eight Beers” McGee’). I have to confess that folk-punk is a genre a really do find grates, but ‘Sleepin’ Rough’ is big on roustabout bluster, big on boozy, brawling stomping choruses, and big on energy.

The Rumjacks Online

  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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