Imported from R.I.P. Society in Australia. Review from Foxy Digitalis: “Kitchen’s Floor is one of a barrage of new bands emerging from the basements of Brisbane and crawling around the East Coast of Australia with insomniac passion and deadpan verve, playing garages and galleries with equal parts affectionate nonchalance and gut-spilling honesty. The single-minded intensity of the songs on offer here derive both from their fleeting duration and the hammering repetitive poetry drawling from Matt Kennedy’s insistent, scraping vocal chords and Julia Norris’ zombie-march tom thuds. There’s real biting tension produced by this scarcity of form imbued with such railing, heart-felt content, Kennedy’s lyrics (thankfully reproduced in the liners) by turns offering himself up for slaughter or claiming an emotionally cathartic victory by sheer dint of his distended, sluggishly melodic delivery. The Vaselines, Beat Happening and early Campfire Girls all come to mind in these frozen emotional vignettes, each a moment captured, beaten to a pulp then emphatically re-animated through a fucked Stratocaster all open strings and rippling fuzz-drunk chords and appropriately understated rhythmic insistence. The latter carefully keeps the songs framed tightly enough so that they resonate sympathetically through the whole album in a cumulative fulguration of perfect scuzzed-up pop song.”

Tracks:
1. Ground
2. Lander
3. Left
4. Deadshits
5. Back home
6. Downed It
7. Dishes
8. Woollens
9. Failure
10. Sparkles
11. Twenty-two

Shipping Rate: B