{"id":23092,"date":"2023-09-08T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23092"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:10:13","slug":"c-o-f-f-i-n-australia-stops-bad-vibrations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=23092","title":{"rendered":"C.O.F.F.I.N \u2013 \u2018Australia Stops\u2019 (Bad Vibrations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you prefer the US re-dubbed version of Mad Max, George Miller\u2019s 1979 post-apocalyptic vision of the future, then hit the homepage button now, because C.O.F.F.I.N are about as Australian as every millimetre of Mick \u201cTwo Fingers\u201d Simpson\u2019s beer belly. Just take one look at the front cover of \u2018Australia Stops\u2019, the band\u2019s fifth album to date, and there\u2019s no disputing these madmen from the Northern Beaches of Sydney really do suffer for their art. I mean who has a mullet in 2023? Well, other than the members of Rough Gutts, obviously. (Ha!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yeah, these four guys are like a Cosmic Psychos and Asteroid B-612 jam band playing Bea Smith\u2019s birthday bash at Boggo Road Jail, that\u2019s how bloody Australian they are, and they sound totally bloody bonza too! Just take one listen to the album\u2019s opening track (and lead video) \u2018Give Me A Bite\u2019 and tell me I\u2019m wrong.  The opening guitar licks of this track slap you straight across the face before vocalist and drummer Ben Portnoy (no relation\u2026I hope) literally spits the song\u2019s lyrics in it too. There\u2019s something very Hip Priests-like about the \u201cspit in my wounds\u201d refrain too, and that\u2019s certainly no bad thing, eh pop pickers? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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