Status Updates

YOU might remember Super Best Friends from 2013, when they made an internet splash with their song Round and Round.

While the song was good, it was more the film clip that caught people's attention, as it featured all manner of pollies - including Tony Abbott, Anthony Albanese, and Clive Palmer - shaking their groove things.

A couple of years later, the three-piece has gotten off the internet and into the studio to pull together their first LP.

Status Updates is a cracker.

The band did form in Canberra (I don't know about you but I do not associate rock 'n' roll with Canberra at all) so their songs do have quite a political flavour to them.

Dog Whistling is in response to Australia's treatment of asylum seekers, and Conscript hosts an anti-war theme.

But then the band also tackles more serious topics in songs such as Gentrified, which is basically about your favourite local dive bar being cleaned up and yuppified.

All My Friends Are Leaving Town is something young people in Launceston should be able to identify with - it's about your mates moving away to greener pastures.

There are plenty of musical influences that have made their way into this album - a little Frenzal, and I even sense a dose of Jebediah or Blueline Medic - but Super Best Friends still set themselves apart.

This one is going to be playing in my house for a while.

★★★★

- ZONA BLACK