ALBUM#3: ZERO SUM GAME

Ok, we’ve saved our best for last.

Thanks to everybody who has supported us over the journey. 10 years is a long time to be making music! All of our favourite local bands have come and gone, so we’re very proud to still be kicking.

For us, an “album” is the ultimate in music - something that can persevere while fads and trends come and go. Self-produced over the past three years, we recorded this ourselves remotely - Bingers in Melbourne, Pete in Brisbane and Pluto in Wollongong. Every Wednesday night we’d get on Zoom and hash it out - never once together in a room! Yes, we really are living in the future.

Anyway, enough of that. What’s this album all about anyway??

‘Zero Sum Game’ is filled with paranoid rumination, reflecting on consumer capitalism and class warfare, the rise of populist demagogues and the far right, and the inevitable end of all life in the face of entropy.

Glimmers of hope in humanity peek through in ballads, but these are brief sparks next to the brutal misanthropy.

The sound of the record is consciously post-apocalyptic, with space junk synthesisers and guitar effects swirling around stark drums and acoustic guitar.

Our pasted-on wide smiles from the sunny days of the 2010’s have finally melted away, and all that’s left is a thousand yard stare at the realities no one else particularly wants to see.

The days of slumming it in the clubs are gone and the party is now over.

Good luck, everybody!

Pete, Bingers, PJ