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  • tommys windoiw paneWindow Pane b/w Born To Follow - The Tommmys (Fry Up Records)

    With a storied membership of guitarist-vocalist Ollie Laurie (The Exotics),bassist Jonathan Lickliter (Died Pretty) and drummer Rob Lastdrager (T Bones), this red vinyl 45 from Aussie trio The Tommys promised to deliver something out of the box on this 45. And they do.

    The Tommys play surf-influenced garage rock that's so out of kilter with anything you'd hear tin mainstream radio that it could only flourish in the darker recesses of the divergent Melbourne rock scene. Open chord twang and spiralling leads pull against alternately surging or shuffling rhythms to create a dark undercurrent.

    People went nuts for this stuff in Europe in the pre-grunge 1980s - and probably still would, given the right distribution.