MIKAL WATERS AND THE BAY BOMBERS: The Lost Tapes 1979 - '82 Vinyl LP

The best Australian punk records from 1979 to 1982 were mostly never heard at the time, pressed in editions of a few hundred, played on two stations, and left to decompose in milk crates until someone with a good ear pulled them back out. Mikal Waters and the Bay Bombers belong in that conversation.

The Lost Tapes collects recordings from a period when Australian garage punk was doing something genuinely strange, rougher and more paranoid than the pub rock that was eating everything else, closer to the no-wave end of things than the charts. Waters and the Bay Bombers had that regional grit that never quite made it to the industry, which is exactly why it sounds this good now. For collectors of Australian alternative music and anyone who wants their punk with actual dust on it, this is a real find. The price reflects its weight.

Vinyl LP. Australian artist.

Fans of: The Leftovers, Survivors, Psychosurgeons, early Australian punk