Screamfeeder
Track: Summertime
1 Track, LP (2009, Low Transit Industries)
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You can often tell when a band is at the height of their creative powers by the quality of their b-sides. Kitten Licks – the 1996 LP by Brisbane’s Screamfeeder – was, in the words of Time Off editor Steve Bell, the “high watermark of the great band’s canon”. Yielding the holy opening trinity of ‘Static’, ‘Bridge Over Nothing’ and ‘Dart’, it brought the band into the national consciousness and was part of a late ’90s Bris-pop explosion that included Regurgitator, Custard and Powderfinger. ‘Summertime’ is one of six original b-sides re-released, along with the rest of Kitten Licks, to coincide with a national “Don’t Look Back”-style tour. With Lloyd-Steward’s vocal crisscrossing, Shwereb’s tight fills and a stabby guitar interlude that references ‘Berlin Chair’ (well, what indie-rock song in the ’90s didn’t?), it certainly wouldn’t have been out of place among Kitten Licks’s 12 classic tracks. Which is probably why it was included in place of ‘Dead To The World’ when the album was released belatedly in the US.
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