One of the benefits of being a reviewer is that you are consistantly taken out of your comfort zone when you have to listen to stuff you wouldn't listen to. This helps broaden your mind, your tastes, and appreciate the effort that one puts into making music.

This CD was literally placed on my head the other night by the man behind Australian Psycho, Tim Smith.

Australian Psycho is an experiment in Australian, piss-taking punk rock, reminiscent of that genre's time during the late 80's early 90's.

The first song is a tease. It lulls you in thinking it's going to be some prog rock tune, with the thickly reverbed vocals, and the dreamy simple guitar riff... then BAM! Bring on the fuzzed-up power chords and shouty vocals with a fuck-you, I'll do what I want attitude.

You have to remember, this is a one-man project (at the moment, though Tim is looking for band members at the moment), and all instrumentation is done by him, at home, but I have to say, the guy has that many music ideas he vomits music.

It may sound simple, but there's a lot of talent that's gone into this 6-track recording.

I could easily say that the third track (it's an umarked CD, so I have no idea about the song titles), is probably one of my favourites. Putting it simple, it has language that would make Fred Durst or Kevin Bloody Wilson blush, and the topic would be described as a story about an intestinal parasite. Judge for yourself. I don't normally put up links to songs in reviews, but you have to listen to this to understand what I'm on about. Australian Psycho with his tongue firmly in cheek.
Listen to the track here.

Oh, and have to love the unexpected falsetto scream on the last track.

It's raw, fast, unapologetic and Australian Psycho doesn't care if you like it or not, just listen to it and appreciate the underestimated brilliance that goes into the music.

Rooster.