The Rumjacks - 'Hung, Drawn and Portered'
Written by After
Rumjacks Well for a band that has only been around about 12 months (perhaps not even that) these guys have certainly aquired themselves a good following and have managed to release a friggin awesome debut E.P.
My main gripe about the E.P is just that, it is an E.P. E.P's are good, if the band is shit, but they suck when the band isn't shit.
Residing in Sydney, the Rumjacks play a punk rock, irish/scottish folk kind of music in an Australian way. This 5 track E.P, which has already made itself to number 8 of the top Pug Music bestsellers, is just an awesome listen. All the tracks are good, catchy, sing a long tracks with that definite irish/scottish punky folky feel, but with something extra in there. Not really sure what the extra is, maybe its an Aussie feel, maybe it is the vocals, I dunno, but I like it that's for sure. Trying to sit here and work out if there are tracks I prefer more than others. 'Bold Rumjacker' with its slower and more ballady, but not ballady at all sound, could be one. But then 'Paddy goes to babylon' which is more upbeat but just as catchy is also one I could say I prefer more. I guess it is just one of those albums where your favourite track happens to be the one you are listening to at the time.
My 3 year old daughter has just wandered up and told me 'thats a good song. I like that one'. So it seems 'Not going down with the ship' has the thumbs up from her!
Over the next few months you can catch them around Sydney, Canberra and even Hobart. But if you are in Victoria like me, then you will have to settle for buying the E.P for now. Of course from Pug Music, but I wouldn't need to tell you that eh.
