Expected release 16/09/22
Subsidiary
Bellarine Ballerina
Living Under a Rock
Bobbing And Weaving
Farewell To Clemency
Compos Mentis
The Royal Vagabond
Virgin Criminal
Bowlegged Beautiful
Wickr Man
The Ballad Of Peggy Mae
Growing Pains
Hailing from Melbourne, 60’s tinged psych-rock punks The
Murlocs announce their brand new studio album,
‘Rapscallion’, due out on ATO Records. Strappedwith fuzzy guitar licks, feverish bass and psychedelic brightness, the 12-track collection is a coming-of-age novel in an album form. The wildly squalid odyssey populated by an outrageous cast of misfit characters -teenage vagabonds and small-time criminals, junkyard dwellers and truck-stop transients - is partly inspired by frontman Ambrose Kenny-Smith’s own adolescence as a nomadic skate kid. Their most magnificently heavy work yet, the result is an endlessly enthralling album equally steeped in danger and delirium and the wide-eyed romanticism of youth. Self-produced by the band in the early stages of the pandemic, Rapscallion was recorded remotely in the home studios of Kenny-Smith (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Callum
Shortal (guitar), Matt Blach (drums), Cook Craig (bass) and
Tim Karmouche (keys). A truly dynamic musical collective, all five members also perform in other bands: Kenny-Smith and
Craig each play in the globally beloved King Gizzard & The
Lizard Wizard, Shortal plays guitar in ORB, and Karmouche
and Blach are frontmen for Crepes and Beans respectively.
In a departure from the effusive garage-rock of 2021’s
‘Bittersweet Demons’, ‘Rapscallion’’s musical DNA contains
strains of stoner metal and the more primitive edge of post-
punk. Despite that darker and more formidable sound, The
Murlocs instil every track with the freewheeling energy
they’ve brought to the stage while supporting such acts as
Pixies, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, Ty Segall and Thee
Oh Sees.
LP pressed on Sardine Bath Edition baby blue and milky
clear Galaxy Effect vinyl with custom inner sleeve and lyrics insert