★★★★
In pre-Enlightenment days, people who claimed they could predict the future were revered for their apparent magical abilities, condemned as crackpots, or put to death as witches.
These days, add in a bit of trite economic analysis and corporate jargon and predicting the future of the market can make you an absolute fortune as a consultant, or, in Ausmuteants’ case, astute self-promoters.
Are Ausmuteants really the band of the future? Perhaps not, given that these surf coast reprobates have about as much affection for corporate sycophancy as George Christensen has for Yusuf Islam. But that’s straight society’s problem, not Ausmuteants’. Band Of The Future is another Ausmuteants album that reminds you that rock’n’roll needs to be sharp and angry to bite, and to survive.
There’re 14 tracks on this record, clocking in at a breezy 21 minutes. ‘Silent Genes’ makes Suicidal Tendencies sound like a 60/40 dance band, ‘I Hate You’ is scathing knife cutting and ‘Music Writers’ is a salient reminder that not all opinions are necessary to be heard and read.
If Ausmuteants really were the band of the future, the world might well be a better place.
Ausmuteants’Band Of The Futureis out now on Aarght! Records.
