The MeaniesDesperate Measures

Filled with a similar breed of high intensity melodies that solidified them as Australian punk rock heavyweights more than two decades ago, The Meanies are throwing something new into our hungry mouths come 8th July. 

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Titled Desperate Measures, the ten tracks within the record boast the quartets anticipated rhythmic verses and boisterous choruses that we’ve been craving since their 2015 comeback album, It’s Not Me, It’s You. 

Kicking things off with Old Car to Shangri-La, the opening track comes through the speakers with an exuberance that burns the rubber of the tyres, leaving a trail of smoke for All the Brought Men to find themselves in the pitches of the song’s guitar solos. 

Drawling vocals and heavy distortion pay homage to Jekyll and Hyde, with scaling guitar riffs that’ll throw you Under My Rock.  

Though despite who actually got the final chord, it’s evident from the first to the final strum within Desperate Measures that The Meanies haven’t exactly softened with age and that they’ve still got that oomph within their tracks that’ll keep the kids digging through record store crates for generations to come. 

The rhythm section thuds their way beneath the slithering riffs within Cruel to Be Canned and continue to pave the distorted path that rollicks amongst the shore within the grungy Drowning Tower; evoking 90s nostalgia through a spiralling solo that washes into the outro. Bringing it up a notch, Monsters come out to play amidst the bouncy layers of drumbeats which are met by choruses that soar into Hunting a Sloth. While a whimsical melody wraps through the lyrics, the guitar solos are a plenty beneath the harmonious verses that continue into Defcon One. The guitar layers build like a stack of Lego blocks within Sousa before one last solo knock’s them over, sending them into the outro amidst an effects heavy scramble of who might strum the last chord.  

Though despite who actually got the final chord, it’s evident from the first to the final strum within Desperate Measures that The Meanies haven’t exactly softened with age and that they’ve still got that oomph within their tracks that’ll keep the kids digging through record store crates for generations to come. 

STANDOUT TRACKS: All the Brought Men, Under My Rock, Drowning Tower.
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