Filthy Little Star is a musical collective base in Hobart. Led by Van Winkle (Peter McGeachy), FLS is a constantly evolving project that has produced a strikingly varied array of work over the last few years. 

​At Rest is Filthy Little Star's first release on vinyl, and is a striking example of the breadth of McGeachey's songwriting ability. They are stoked to be able to finally deliver the work, which was crowd-funded through a Pozible campaign last year.

Discordant and dissonant, 'Rest in Piss' is Batpiss's third LP, and the most incredibly-titled release you'll see this side of the Pacific in 2017. Recorded and produced by Gareth Liddiard of The Drones (a match made in gritty rock heaven), it follows the wild community radio success of first single 'Weatherboard Man' that saw the band sell-out Collingwood's Gasometer to the hilt, delivering a confronting and committed set and introducing a series of new material from the record. 
 
Paul Piss kindly expanded on the record's themes and artwork: “The cover is from a painting i'd  done earlier in the year. I'd been mucking around with some messy portraits and abstract stuff using oils and oil pastels. After a month or two of sitting in the shed all night pushing paint around, we had about a dozen to choose from. The album itself is about dead mates and some of the stuff that comes with missing them, so we settled on the face, and the title pretty easily. Marty nailed the design and layout in one go, then we had a few vape bags, listened to John Lennon, and here we are…”
 
'Rest in Piss' traverses with gigantic, purposeful leaps, this record delves deep into the darkest, dankest parts of the Australian psyche.

Batpiss will be appearing at the Brisbane Hotel in Hobart on Friday, August the 11th, and at Club 54 in Launceston on Saturday, August the 12th.

Words: Poison City Records

Algiers' second album, The Underside Of Power, is out now via Matador Records / Remote Control Records.

Recorded largely in Bristol and produced by Adrian Utley (Portishead) and Ali Chant, mixed by Randall Dunn (Sunn O)))), with post-production by Ben Greenberg (The Men, Hubble, Uniform), touchstones on the uncompromising and impassioned album run from Southern rap to Northern soul, gospel to IDM, industrial to grime to italo.

More pertinent than ever before, The Underside Of Power follows Algiers' 2015 eponymous debut. The record touches on oppression, police brutality, dystopia, and hegemonic power structures. Its fiery lyrics encompass TS Eliot, the Old Testament, The New Jim Crow, Tamir Rice and Hannah Arendt, while carried by soulful and visceral songs, meditative moments and personal reflection.

This is the musical response that dark times demand. One that not only shakes its fist but deploys it. Locally-informed and globally based – Algiers refuse to sit idly by while most contemporary artists appear perfectly content to wait out the revolution. Not only do they harbour a purposeful sense of obligation in what they do on their latest resistance record, The Underside Of Power, but they recognise the roots and thorns of precedent in said resistance.
 
Led by vocalist and lyricist Franklin James Fisher, their shared experiences and collective understanding of this rising tide of sinister politics – growing up together in Atlanta and witnessing first-hand the pervasiveness of racialised and institutional violence – compels them to make music together, to combat the potentially crippling waves of frustration and despair and to let out a soulful roar, a call-to-action set to an eclectic, positively electric beat.

Words: Matador/Remote Control