(Independent/MGM)

Angular dance rock. I’d say more, but that’s about all there is.

Man, I’m getting really good at guessing a group’s style going by name and album cover alone. Hmm, I’m seeing … skinny boys in tight jeans, lots of hi-hat and four-to-the-beat bass drums, two note lead guitar lines and lots of screeching vocals of ‘anguish’ and ‘emotion’? Let’s listen and see … yeah, I’m not too far off the mark. A quartet of songs from this Melbourne (big surprise there as well) group, Artefacts shows a band who know what they’re doing, and they do it so well that they rarely go outside the aforementioned formula. It’s good, but you guys realise that even ‘80s post-punk bands had a bit of song variety, right? I had to wait to there final song (Ladies In Vogue) to find any diversity, and even that only came in the form of a ten second keyboard fill. An EP should be a chance to display the wide array of sounds a band can make, not the same song with four different names.

MITCH ALEXANDER

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