Review - The Belair Lip Bombs – Again (Third Man Records, 2026) english version
How a young Australian band is rewriting jangle for a generation caught between nostalgia and hyper-presence Over the last fifteen years, Australia has become one of the most fertile laboratories for guitar music: an ecosystem in which jangle — that combination of bright guitars, gentle melancholy and melodic immediacy — has found new forms, new languages and new communities. It is a legacy that began in the 1980s, spread through the suburbs of Brisbane and Melbourne, and reached the bedrooms of a generation raised on streaming, precariousness and an almost stubborn desire for emotional sincerity. On their second album, Again , The Belair Lip Bombs fit surprisingly naturally into the long tradition of Australian jangle, a legacy rooted in the Go-Betweens and the Lucksmiths, which has found new life in the Melbourne scene in recent years. The band chooses not to replicate the shadowy melancholy of Flying Nun's New Zealand jangle, preferring a brighter, more pop, more emotionally ...