The Turgid Miasma Of Existence, by The Celibate Rifles

The Turgid Miasma Of Existence

by The Celibate Rifles

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t0rqreturn2019 Great punchy punk tinged garage rock with smart lyrics, and great harmonic interplay, as well as fantastic production values. Heard about this from old issues of MRR, but never picked it up back then. The group is still around as of 2022.

djmadi83 Spectacular rock'n'roll album, among the best ever realised not only in Australia. Favorite track: Some Kind Of Feeling.

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1.	Bill Bonney Regrets 04:01		buy track
2.	Conflict Of Instinct 02:59		buy track
3.	Temper Temper Mr. Kemper 02:23		buy track
4.	Sentinel 05:25		buy track
5.	Some Kind Of Feeling 02:59		buy track
6.	Glasshole 02:54		buy track
7.	Sometimes 02:37		buy track
8.	No Sign 04:24		buy track
9.	Eddie 03:13		buy track
10.	JNS 02:32		buy track
11.	New Mistakes 04:02		buy track
12.	Kill Your Sons - Live 04:58	info	buy track
13.	New Mistakes - Live 03:07	info	buy track
14.	Temper Temper Mr. Kemper - Live 02:30	info	buy track
15.	Wild Desire - Live 03:21	info	buy track

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It seems that the Australian punk scene has seldom been more vital than it is today, with swathes of new bands emerging, and taking it to the world – Amyl and The Sniffers, The Chats, C.O.F.F.I.N and Civic to name just a few.

It might be a good time to take another look back at that particularly fertile mid-80s period, when bands touting a peculiarly Australian way of life were breaking out on the international stage, a distinctly inventive Aussie punk counterpoint to what was happening up on the Washington DC scene.

Northern Beaches surf-bums The Celibate Rifles had already made their mark in their homeland with their first two albums on hip Darlinghurst label Hot Records. By 1986, the label had reached out to Rough Trade to give them an international release, which would soon result in their first overseas tour and, in the fullness of time, the recording of their international breakthrough album Roman Beach Party, (already reissued in deluxe form by Area Pirata).

With guitarist Kent Steedman producing, the band commenced recording at Sydney’s famed Alberts Studio before a misunderstanding led to them being booted out, whenceforth they decamped once again to Rick Turk’s Honeyfarm Studio in Duffy’s Forest, where they’d made their first two albums.

Songs like ‘Sometimes’, ‘Conflict Of Interest’, ‘Some Kind Of Feeling’ and the hardcore/jazz fusion of opener ‘Bill Bonney Regrets’ – now a YouTube favourite – have gone on to become Rifles classics, their incisive Damien Lovelock lyrics – ‘Sometimes when I get home, I just want to go out again’, ‘Get up in the morning have the same thing for breakfast, freeze-dried coffee and multigrain toast’ – dryly underpinning the suburban ennui implicit in the album’s title. Their itchy buzzsaw punk, meanwhile, is balanced by more reflective sounds of ‘Sentinel’, ‘Glasshouse’ and ‘No Sign’ and adventurous use of cello, dulcimer and bass clarinet.

“Some good tunes, hard...” considers Kent today, modestly. “Ironically just about every sentiment is unfortunately still current today... fuckers still invading countries, problems with drugs, the drudgery and isolation, the intrusion on our person space, destroying natural places and lack of care or empathy and media manipulating. Bit sad really as I write it... no wonder turgid… it’s hard and angry to some degree... Sonically very Australian, blame me for a lot of it… how I heard stuff, I didn’t always have the skill to bring what I heard out, but the energy compensated a bit. It was consciously made within our skill set to not follow the current recording trends of the time...”

Reissued in a replica of its original gatefold sleeve, the new edition comes with a two-page insert and download code with four bonus tracks.

Gerry Ranson (Vive Le Rock)

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released October 15, 2023

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Area Pirata was born in 2001 immediately tended to Garage, R'n'R, HC-Punk…
We care about reissue of old records no more available or unissued as well as new records recorded from bands on activities with an attitude alike ours.
We tought and we still think that our attitude and determination could be a factor to help those real underground scenes not depending strictly on the kind of muisc! ... more

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