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Is there a sound as grating as the hissing and clawing of two warring cats in the early hours of the morning?
It turns out the answer to that question is yes: it’s the sound of Breakin’ Outta Hell by Airbourne. In a contest between ten minutes of cats vs the full hour of this album, my recommendation would be cats – that way you can save 50 minutes of your life.
The songs are repetitive and each of the individual parts – whether it be the guitar riffs or uninspired basslines – feel as though they could be picked up and copy-pasted into any other track without much of a difference.
Lyrically, every song is concerned with some combination of beer/pubs/hell/the man who turns down rock and how much he sucks. Primary school lyrics like, “I work all day and rock all night / Don’t stop me or we’ll have a fight” reek of a kind of puerile idiocy that really has to be heard to believed.
If you really must listen to this album, pick any three songs at random and you’ll have heard the whole thing. But, ideally, do yourself a favour and skip this one entirely.
Airbourne’sBreakin’ Outta Hellis available now on Spinefarm Records/Caroline Australia.
