UV Race – Racism

2010 onwards saw the rise of a new jangly rock sound in the Australian punk/DIY scene – now known as “Dole Wave” which was coined as a joke and stuck. To me, it was just the sound of all the bands/friends bands at that time. Many living in punk share houses, scraping by on new start (the Australian dole) and or working 4 casual shit paying jobs around the clock just to pay their share of the rent.

It was a time when the Australian Underground scene swelled and some of the best DIY scenes popped up in my home town. Sadly, many of these have now closed. There is a great book from that scene - Noise in My Head - Australian Underground by Jimi Kritzler featuring a lot of the bands from that era and photographs of gigs we went to at the time.

UV Race were one of the early bands to kick it off, describing themselves as “avant-tards and gutter glitter stomp”. Forming in the deep suburbs of Victoria this album channels some Jonathon Richmond and Modern Lovers inspiration in both lyrics and sound but with more synths, sax and costumes. It’s their third album and probably my favourite of theirs. Here they sing about being an outsider, heartbreak on Johnstone street, making fun of cops, and nuclear families.

I haven’t dug this out for ages cos that sound became saturated in the scene later on and I needed some space from it. But I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting this today.

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