Barely Human: Dispatches From An Underground Music Anti-History (2014-2024) Book

Most music history books are written by people who showed up late and left early. Barely Human is not that book.

Covering a decade of underground music from 2014 to 2024, this collection of essays traces a pseudo-lineage through the scenes, artists, and moments that mainstream coverage either ignored or got wrong. It's the kind of document that gets passed around in the same circles as the music itself, written from inside the noise rather than looking in through glass. If you've spent any real time in the grunge, industrial, gothic, or experimental punk underground, whether in Melbourne or anywhere else the alternative fringe actually operates, some of this will feel like reading your own diary. The rest will send you down a rabbit hole you won't regret.

Paperback. Published 2024. Essays and written works. Approximately ten years of underground music covered, 2014 to 2024.