Review - HEDGE BURNERS – Fall Out of the Future (Legless Records)
There is a certain hour of the night in Melbourne when the city seems to breathe a life of its own. The streets are empty, the traffic lights flash like the headlights of a ship that will never arrive, and the wind carries the scent of the sea even when you are miles from the coast. It is at that hour that Fall Out of the Future seems to take shape: not as an album, but as an atmospheric phenomenon. And it is something deeply unsettling and magnetic that materialises. Fall Out of the Future does not merely describe the city: it inhabits it, traverses it, observes it as it crumbles under the weight of time, memory and its own contradictions. Steph Hughes (vocals and guitar, formerly of DICK DIVER and BOOMGATES), Arron Mawson (guitar, active member of STIFF RICHARDS and SPLIT SYSTEM, with a significant history in DOE St.), Alex Gionis (drums, formerly of BOOMGATES and THE GREEN CHILD), together with bassist Jackson Allen , craft a work that seems recorded at the very momen...