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Tex Perkins possesses a relentless rock ’n’ roll spirit – wild, unpredictable and free. Few music careers have been as diverse. And now he has yet another new band, a collaboration with Melbourne’s Matt Walker (of LOST RAGAS fame).
The pair road-tested their works in progress as a duo before enlisting bassist Steve Hadley, drummer Roger Bergodaz and Evan Richards on percussion to complete the Fat Rubber Band line-up to record the album’s ten tracks at Walker’s Stovepipe Studios in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges.
“At Matt’s studio – you open the door to the studio and nature floods in,” Perkins says. “We wanted it to sound rural, to feel the dirt and the grass and the leaves.”
The band name suggests something flippant and throwaway, but this record is a keeper: a sturdy, swampy treat that showcases some superb songwriting. Check out the epic beauty of For A Love Long Gone, which is both heartbreaking and haunting, with an unforgettable guitar solo.
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