Description:	CD on Melodic
	Format:	CD
	Genre(s):	Garage Rock
	Label:	Melodic
	Price:	£11.29
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...according to our Ant on 01 April 2010.

Between hanging out with Koala bears and necking loads of Castlemaine XXX the Eddy Current Suppression Ring managed to record a super energetic and catchy record that sounds kinda early 90's. It's a right old post-punk garage fest with a poppy edge recalling ye olde Flying Nun NZ styles. What a tight bunch they are, and they can certainly write a good tune. Folks here be diggin' this record.

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Sound clips for Rush To Relax by Eddy Current Suppression Ring: on CD at Norman Records UK. CD, Melodic, MELO066CD, £11.29.

What their label says...

* In summer 2009, we Brits were finally given a chance to catch up with the finest proto-punk band south of the equator when the first two albums by Melbourne quartet Eddy Current Suppression Ring (Eddy Current Suppression Ring and Primary Colours) and were finally released in one unbeatable double-disc set (melo60cd). With hints of Wire, The Stooges, The Pixies, Violent Femmes and The Fall, Brit critics fawned over the foursome’s unreconstructed garage rock, with The Guardian eve awarding a rare five star review:
- 5/5 THE GUARDIAN: "Fast n fuzzy garage-rock, but so much more characterful and idiosyncratic than the
genre norm."

- 8.2 ON PITCHFORK: "Like a less creepy version of The Fall with the thrust of The Stooges."

- 4/5 UNCUT: "Invigorating representatives of the australoan garage-punk tradition."

- NUMBER 28 IN TH GUARDIAN'S BEST 50 ALBUMS OF 2009.

* But, just as we’re getting up to speed with them, the band are set to unleash their third album, Rush To Relax. And it’s a very good thing. Like those first two albums, Rush To Relax was recorded in a matter of hours in the band’s humble practice room. And as such, it perfectly captures their primal spirit, naivety and love of improvisation.

* “We wanted to take away the feeling of recording an album and just practice,” says guitarist Mikey Young, aka Eddy Current. “I pressed record, we played well, and five hours later we had no more songs. I took the tapes home and listened and was pleasantly surprised how good it sounded. I think its great that we can spend zero dollars and finish a record that sounds like this one does.”

* There’s lots to love in this album, not least vocalist Brendan’s real Aussie accent, which rings through in every track (the brilliant I Can Be A Jerk just wouldn’t work any other way). The sound is rough, unpolished, primal and fresher than tomorrow’s milk.

* Comprising guitarist Mikey ‘Eddy Current’ Young, drummer Danny ‘Danny Current’ Young, vocalist Brendan ‘Brendan Suppression’ Huntley and bassist Brad ‘Rob Solid’ Barry, the four members of ECSR met working for a vinyl pressing plant outside Melbourne. As their 2003 company Christmas party wound down, the four began jamming drunkenly together into a tape recorder, and the germ of the band was born. Their name – and what a name – was taken from a mechanical component used by engineers at the plant. Though they refuse to operate music as a full-time career, the band have tasted great success down under, with Primary Colours winning the Mercury-equivalent Australian Music Prize.

* TRACKLIST: 1. Anxiety 2. I’ve Got A Feeling 3. Tuning Out 4. Gentleman 5. Walked Into A Corner 6. Second Guessing 7. I Can Be A Jerk 8. Burn 9. Isn’t It Nice 10 Rush To Relax