Album Review: Tape/Off - Broadcast Park

Broadcast Park is gritty, raw and thick, full of misleading lulls presented here as potholes on a dirt road. It's really quite excellent if you're in the mood for being thrashed about.

A vocalisation of manifest injustice, this is the bang and the whimper, the burning of the straw man in variegated and at times atonal intonations that flux from sombre to manic without diverging from a brand of beat delivery that feels as jarring and unacceptable as its subject matter should. And yet it's so authentic, so immediate, grounded and familiar that it's like listening to your down on his luck mate air his grievances. And good on 'em, good flipping on 'em, because it's taken years for this LP to arrive and you'd have to wonder if there were no frisson at this point then why make anything at all. Thankfully we have fragments here that are over four years old and are hitting home in ways that are more relevant than ever. Things are not going well and it's a great time for people to hear why.

Tape/Off have put forward something that says, this is Australia, this is modern life, this is malaise meets rage at its most percussive and poignant. This is the sound of someone who's finally had enough and is ready to speak up.