Melbourne’s garage punk outfit Shutdown 66, a supergroup featuring members of The Breadmakers, The Hekawis, The Puritans and Driveway Service, put out some pretty cool releases between 1998 and 2004. Twenty years later, here is a lost album with twelve original, previously unreleased songs – at the time recorded by the original line-up – that still sound as urgent and exciting as they did back then. Raucous and dirty music, with mean guitars, an untamed organ and loud screams, just as it should be. It doesn’t really matter how old this sound is, but it fully lives up to the title, and it will always be awesome.
I Wish It Could Be Shutdown 66 (Again), restored by Mikey Young, is out now on vinyl LP trough Soundflat Records.
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