CUSTARD

ABC

Respect All Lifeforms

Their time in the spotlight may long since have fizzled, but Custard’s quirks shine as bright as ever on album #8 – unequivocally their best post-reunion. The playful, tonguein-cheek sarcasm and searing wit strike at every turn. The guitars are gristly and groovy and immediately earwormish, frontman Dave McCormack riffing with a buoyant spryness around Paul Medew’s poignantly prickly basslines. The production is tight, yet loose and lowkey, echoing the scrappy and youthful zest that made the Brisbane rockers such a fiery force to be reckoned with in the ‘90s. Its lead single asks, “Will we ever be that funky again?” There’s an argument to be made that Custaro have never been so funky. Break out the good wine and crank this one loud.