Bilby – Champion Ruby
I just now clocked that there was a new Bilby track on the internet but it’s a tricky little beast because it’s doesn’t live in a traditional dwelling (soundcloud, bandcamp, apartment) but exclusively on Triple J Unearthed*. So even though it’s killing my sound doc aesthetic I’m embedding it because timing is currency and I like currency like I like this song, which is to say heaps a fair bit. Also, if you’re one of the two overseas readers, this might be a nice introduction to Unearthed? Get in there. There’s actually two new tracks (new to me, anyway, it’s been a while since I caught up on Bilby news) and Champion Ruby is the faster of the two. It’s pinned down by a tinny drum machine track and is mixed more murkily than the second but it’s a good illustration of the elements that make Bilby so diverting. Hitting syllables right on guitar plucks and strong refrains that are hard to extricate from your head once there.
The second track is this one Smoak It which is a signpost by which we can once again know that Bilby likes to smoke things. This one is from closer to the start of the year but it’s still more fresh than the last time I wrote about our m8. Bonus news, I was looking through his fb images and saw that he played a show with March of the Real Fly. Isn’t that just perfect though? That show would have been righteous.
*Hey I found it on soundcloud now but I can’t very well just go back on all that stuff about unearthed can I?
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