Album Review: Matrimony – Kitty Fingers

Australia doesn’t get nearly the amount of credit it deserves for its long-standing punk rock scene. From The Saints and The Birthday Party to the Hard-Ons, while the rest of the world was arguing whether punk rock started in New York or London, the Aussies were busy going about their business churning out one brilliant distortion-laden record after the next. It should come as little surprise then that another great Australian-based punk band, and a precursor to the Riot Grrrl movement, slipped under the radar in the late 1980s. The Sydney-based Matrimony were influenced by the Stooges, Sonic Youth, Pussy Galore, Velvet Underground, and Olympia, Washington’s the Beat Happenings, an eclectic-but-solid grouping that was reflected in their own music. Formed in 1988 they only stuck together lo...

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