PRIVATE FUNCTION: St. Anger Vinyl LP

The best joke in Australian punk right now is that Private Function named their album after the most mocked Metallica record of all time and then made something genuinely great. The audacity alone deserves your money.

The Melbourne outfit have been quietly building one of the most chaotic and entertaining live reputations in the country, and St. Anger, their 2023 full-length, captures that energy without sanding off any of the edges. Pub rock instincts collide with garage punk sneer across a record that sounds like it was written in a bar, recorded in a hurry, and mixed with exactly the right amount of contempt for anyone who takes this stuff too seriously. Australian punk doing what it does best, loud and funny and completely uninterested in your approval.

Vinyl LP, 2023 pressing, Australian release. Genre: punk rock, garage punk, pub rock. Origin: Australia.

Fans of: Amyl and the Sniffers, Chats, The Hard-Ons, Civic.