Absolute Boys - Heavy Flow (Australia)

Absolute Boys - Heavy Flow (Australia)Following from two 12 releases in 2011, Heavy Flow develops on the promise of their unique approach with a matured sense of composition. The result is a brilliant exercise in post punk minimalism, suggesting Fugazi at their most sparse, the rhythmic cacophony of My Disco and the neo psychedelic bliss of Tame Impala, not to mention something from the early Factory catalogue on top. Absolute Boys are a dub band without the excess. Their focus is on

for Basho’s deeply spiritual approach

collapsing barriers between artist and listener to find power and strength in intimacy

After personnel changes in 1985 (Garry Bradbury and Paul Deering left the band)

like someone turning the dial on an imaginary radio station

they released mini-album ‘Stand By’ in 2004

jazz pianist Herbie Hancock

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Flash forward to 2009: Vanguard contacted guitarist (and long-time Basho champion) Glenn Jones with the intriguing news that an unreleased Robbie Basho album session had recently been found

The result is a quiet

A second LHI album with Ann-Margret was planned but never recorded

Steve Arrington

trying to be heard amid the noisy grain