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  • fowl weather vein cvrFowl Weather Vein – Fowl Weather Vein (Vi-Nil Records)

    There’s a moody dynamic and tension in the playing that makes “Fowl Weather Vein” (by the Sydney band of the same name) compelling listening.

    Stylistically speaking, the album’s no easy beast to pin down, despite the band’s fairly standard configuration of one guitar, keys drums and bass. It’s highly-strung and intense music that recalls Magazine or even Buzzcocks without the buzzsaw rush. But that's only half the story.