- Label: 'Spinning Top Records'
- Genre: 'Rock'
- Release Date: '31st May 2024'
Our Rating:
This is a collection of down to earth driving songs with toe-tapping riffs, colourful language and nasally vocals.
Aussie Peter Bibby’s fourth studio album, produced in Melbourne by Dan Luscombe, opens with the less than celebratory Arsehole in which he laments “No one seems to want to talk to me / ‘cuz I’m the arsehole, probably.”.
Despite this unflattering self-evaluation, Bibby now considers himself a more enlightened, responsible individual. He says “A lot of the songs on the album are the result of situations where I was drunk or dealing with the drama that comes from it all.”
He is allegedly done with getting pissed but he has only been sober since 2023 so it’s early days yet. Many songs give the impression that they were scribbled down after getting wrecked.
A song written from the perspective of a wheely bin (Bin Boy) is an indicator of how wasted his life had become before he quit drinking.
The ragged rock’n’roll isn’t really varied or deep enough to sustain the twelve track album so it’s good that some quieter and more thoughtful songs like Baby Squid and Terracotta Brick are included.
There’s not much in the way of craft or subtlety on offer but the rough around the edges production at least gives the tunes a certain measure of raw energy.
