The Thousands

What:
Kitchen’s Floor 7"

Who:
Kitchens Floor

See them live:
Supermild, Fri Feb 26, 7:30pm, with Hit The Jackpot + Bitch Prefect
Format Opening Party, Sat Feb 27, with Batrider + Almost Numan + Terrible Truth’s

On:
R.I.P. Society Records

**Brisbane’s very own band of doomed youth takes timeout from dwelling in apathy and distressing furrow-browed mothers to deliver a three-song 7" record. Their first foray into vinyl sees Kitchen’s Floor continue to carve out dank and mould-ridden outsider pop with a raw, primitive temperament.

It’s a little less rousing and hopeful in mood than their 2009 debut Loneliness Is A Dirty Mattress. Vague melodic hooks break the surface, but an undertow of alcohol induced lethargy keeps them plastered into the ground.

Opening track ‘Orbit‘ is driven by lumbering bass that wanders around in a confused circle, like it’s name suggests. It gives off a feeling of uneasy sluggishness that makes for a good precursor to ‘Regrets‘, an upbeat splinter of dejected garage-punk. It ploughs headlong through raucous guitar chords and anguished bellowing, before a chorus of not-so-jubilant ah’s and oh’s desperately try to lift the anxiety. It’s great, and fully encapsulates the self-deprecating bleakness that this band often suggests, and sometimes celebrates.