Album review: Dune Rats – If It Sucks, Turn It Up

Five albums deep, Dune Rats have still not started taking life seriously. Really, though, why would they? Ever since they started 13 years ago, the Aussie surf-punks have had charm and humour coming out of their eyes, and their singular sense of character has always made them memorable. Were you ever likely to forget a refrain like, ​‘Dalai llama / Big banana / Marijuana’? This time around, they’ve squeezed even more mileage out of their sense of humour without it wearing thin, but they’ve stretched themselves musically too – and it punches hard.  Dune Rats preface their fifth outing with a joking warning – ​‘Have you heard their new stuff? It SUUUCKS!’ – before stomping and shouting through a virulent title-track laced with Auto-Tune and meta commentary (‘Not...

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