Pour a drink, head for the porch and watch the world go by: Hard Rubbish necessitates a laid-back listen. Recorded in one take with bum notes aplenty, here, members of Melbourne bands UV Race, Dick Diver and Deaf Wish trade their amps for acoustic guitars and drum brushes then proceed to casually flaunt all building codes, instead cobbling together a lean-to of loosely-constructed folk; songs with so much space between the cracks there’s room for any passing vagrant to come in and take a load off.
These sweet, simple tunes summon the canny vulnerability of Moon Pix-era Cat Power whilst radiating the kind of youthful, accidental charm that’s hard to bottle and impossible to fake yet all too easy to grow out of.
[rating:3.5]
