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Mirror II MATADOR
8/10
Third fine album in as many attempts by Australian trio
Brisbane highschool friends James Harrison, Louis Forster and Riley Jones took some time apart before recording Mirror II, which breaks a three-year silence. It’s a considerable relief to discover that, upon reuniting with a somewhat expanded sonic palette, they have not deviated from their core virtues: drolly mordant lyrics, instinctive tunefulness and the lo-fi new-wave sensibility that carries it all. Instant deadpan classics such as “Tag” and “In The Stone” would prompt comparisons to early Go-Betweens even if Louis Forster’s father wasn’t Robert Forster, but as any such references are about the highest praise imaginable, The Goon Sax should not be daunted by them.