Album Review: Lower Plenty - Life/Thrills

The urban-country myth of Lower Plenty continues with third album Life/Thrills, a hodgepodge of lo-fi musings that bemuse and cajole before spiralling out of control.

Which is kind of the point – you get a sense that this outfit is the chance for the quartet to unwind, unload and unburden. Waiting For A Tram is a four-track kitchen sink ramble that coagulates into a muted Crazy Horse implosion; Calculations is the broken-hinge reflections of someone losing themselves in their domesticised malaise; the disturbed mantra of wasted strangers rings throughout Concrete Floor. Disjointed, disorienting and altogether mesmerising.