Album of the week: December 18 – Total Control

December 18th 2017

They say he who has the last laugh has the best laugh. As another year draws to a close, Melbourne band Total Control have released a new record,Laughing At The System. Written and recorded over the past couple of years, it’s the follow up to 2014’s album Typical System that sees the band’s craftsmanship as impressive as ever as they continue to blend teeth gnashing post-punk and noise-synth into eight cool-under-fire tracks. It’s wry, restless and witty, with a madhouse absurdity that cuts us all a slice of psychedelic futurism. Purposefully comical and critical, vocalist Daniel Stewart’s refrain of “laughing at the system” ricochet’s throughout the record. And that titular laugh is not one to be stifled, it’s a manic cackle – raucous and brilliant. Turning doubt into disturbance and resisting conformity through convulsion, Total Control offer a sonic intervention on the strangeness of existence, breaking the fourth wall to deliver some serious punchlines.


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