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One to watch: the Belair Lip Bombs
The Australian quartet’s punchy, hook-packed songs combine immediacy and complexity in a way that recalls the Strokes
Lush Life, the 2023 debut album by Melbourne four-piece the Belair Lip Bombs, is the kind of punchy, hook-laden rock record that hardly gets made any more, straightforward in sound but borderline unassailable in its construction. Principal songwriter Maisie Everett, formerly of the garage rock trio Clamm, has a singular knack for writing earworm hooks: Lush Life ’s first 10 minutes alone contain some of the most catchy choruses of the past year, their melodic directness (and the songs’ clean, loud production) strongly recalling the Strokes circa Room on Fire. Nearly every song finds Everett’s guitar and vocal lines interlocking seamlessly with guitarist Mike Bradvica, bass player Jimmy Droughton and drummer Liam de Bruin.
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