Eddy Current Suppression Ring - Primary Colours

Primary Colours is the second studio album by Australian garage punk band Eddy Current Suppression Ring, originally released in May 2008 via Aarght Records.

In the tradition of the best of Australian rock’n’roll – Missing Links, Easybeats, AC/DC, The Saints, Victims, X, Straightjacket Nation – comes Eddy Current Suppression Ring. Working with a formula of dedicated simplicity, ECSR take a brilliant half talking / half singing vocalist, play one riff and a primitive beat and stick with it.

It's not all Neanderthal thump and grind on Primary Colours however, there's plenty of melodic guitar chime and smart lyricism to go around too, and 'We'll Be Turned On' (complete with a great Clean-esque keyboard line) is one of the best garage pop songs in a long while.

Elsewhere, there's 'Which Way to Go' and 'Colour Television' which roll Modern Lovers, the Fall, and Television into one, and add a lot of trade mark ECSR to create something that's not quite garage rock (too smart) or post-punk (too fun). Why reinvent the wheel, when you, like ECSR, can add some bigger, shinier rims to make it seem brand new.

This album is a reissue on compact disc housed in a gatefold card digisleeve, pressed in Australia via Aarght Records.