Issue 453

The Audreys

"My family are making gags about buying me a trophy cabinet," quips Taasha Coates, vocalist for Adelaide's The Audreys. Gathered together with Tristan Goodall (guitar/ banjo), and bassist Lyndon Gray, Coates is of course referring to the band's recent win at this year's ARIAs for their second release, 'When The Flood Comes', which took out the Best Blues & Roots Album award. While the need for a whole cabinet might seem ambitious, it's not entirely far-fetched when you consider all the other awards and industry accolades the band have received for this and their debut album, 'Between Last Night And Us', which incidentally scooped up the same prize two years ago, presenting them with an impressive pair of bookends indeed.

Jay Reatard
Matador Singles '08
Matador/ Remote Control

The singles format seems to be one perfectly suited to Jay Reatard - this is his second such collection released this year ('Singles 06-07' being the other), and despite their seeming throwaway nature, there are some absolutely cracking songs on here that deserve to be heard. The harder edge that characterised his early work is mostly gone here in favour of pop hooks, and at his best Reatard is able to conjure as fine a set of melodies as have been married to buzzing guitars since Pete Shelley's heyday.

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