STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK drone Think of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher

Think of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher (2020) or Dan Barrett's Giles Corey (2011)

Preserved In Torment lays the listener to waste with the band’s monolithic siege and impossibly heavy riffs and relentless mid-tempo drum barrages creating the aural equivalent of being trampled beneath the hooves of some unstoppable army

sounds almost like a different group

” He tells me the instrumentation reflects Slavic shamanistic tradition

STRANDED: Australian Independent Music, 1976–1992 (Revised and Expanded Edition) by Clinton Walker BOOK drone Think of Phoebe Bridgers' Punisher1st edition. 428 pages, paperback. The definitive book on Australian punk and post punk music, long unavailable, now reissued in a much expanded new edition with 175 photos. STRANDED offers the inside story of the emergence of the Saints, the Birthday Party, the Laughing Clowns, the Go Betweens, Nick Cave, the Moodists, the Scientists, and many more great Australian bands, told by a writer who witnessed it all first hand. Much misunderstood on its