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  • manaraysManArays - ManArays (Swashbuckling Hobo)

    Considering they've been around since the start of last decade, Brisbane’s Manarays have a minuscule online footprint. Consider this a Public Service Announcement to alert you to their presence, as well as an album review. 

    The ManArays - vocalist Chris Fletcher, guitarist Adrian Carroll (aka Killer Guitar Carroll) and drummer Micky Scott - come from turn-of-the’80s Sydneysiders The Splatterheads, so it’s no surprise to hear them tackle these 13 songs with a similar attack. 

  • cbu with sly faulknerBrave Face – Chinese Burns Unit with Sly Faulkner (Buttercup Records)

    With a band history going back a decade-and-a-half, you’d assume Sydney punks Chinese Burns Unithave done it all. Nuh-huh. Not until they’d recorded with Sly Faulkner, ex of The Splatterheads, Red Planet Rockets and Powerline Sneakers. The idea dates back to pre-COVID so it’s taken a while to come to fruition. How goes the adage? Good things come to those who wait.

    To the A side and “Brave Face” flows like fine goon wine. Engine room members Jay Whalley and John Irish lock in for the ride of their lives. Faulkner’s impassioned vocal and some melodic back-ups contrast with potent lyrics about betrayal. Duelling guitars from Glennoand Jenny Tare the jam on top of the cream bun.