The Drones - Here Comes The Lies

Depending on who you are and where you're from, you may have heard of a band called The Drones. Hailing from Perth, Australia, the four piece are a rock & roll band. They have released 4 studio albums over 10 years, with a fifth coming out in September. Consisting of guitars, drums, bass and vocals, they play shows regularly and have a solid fan base.
All sounds very pedestrian, doesn't it?
That is, until you actually hear their tunes. Frontman Garteh Liddiard combines his sheer power and ocker accent to create a mood and rhythm that perfectly compliments the material he is raving on about. Dirty guitars and an even dirtier mind, they can send you back to the colonial Australian outback and straight back to a gentrified inner Melbourne suburb with strum of a chord, the splash of a cymbal, the hint of a breath.
You might wonder why the band has been a regular feature on ATP events over the last few years. Of course, being on their label doesn't hurt, but an interesting footnote is how many times they have been chosen by curators to play. No mean feat for a festival that seems to have the power to reform Nirvana if it really wanted to.
You also might wonder why I've written so much about this album, straying from my brief artist/album descriptions that are the status quo. It's in direct proportion to how highly I think of this band. I can safely say they will be looked back upon as one of the great bands in Australia's history, right up there with The Go-Betweens and Midnight Oil.
Start here, their debut LP, and go from there.

MYSPACE

The Cockeyed Lowlife Of The Highlands - 3:42
Dekalb Blues - 5:07
The Downbound Train - 7:50
I'd Been Told - 7:02
New Kind Of Kick - 4:29
I Walked Across The Dam - 8:07
Motherless Children - 4:58
Hell And Haydevils - 8:03
The Scrap Iron Sky - 4:48
The Island - 5:14
Six Ways To Sunday - 7:21
The Country Of Love - 5:35

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