Brisbane six-piece Anal Traffic is not completely serious, well not at first. Check the name for starters, and if you need more, they double as librarians, lawyers and bankers yet still manage to knock out stoopid punk rock that sounds hedonistically silly. If you’re not down with titles like Six Beer Queer and In Past Your Wrist, rude words, graphic gay lyrics and punk rock, you may not appreciate what the band’s press release describes as ‘queer punk rock in a latex glove to the shoulder.’ But I was into their self-released debut EP from the first listen. How could I not, it’s like Turbonegro and Warren G with a solid dose of the Buzzcocks. I didn’t hold out much hope for the second listen, I might add, the overtly promiscuous nightclub sex and low-fi camp rock soundtrack seemed unlikely to bear up for the long term. But something about the anthemic Two Pumps and a Squirt sticks. “I don’t want you to love me / Just take your cock and stick it right up me.” The laughs and dancing are cool, but it’s the descriptions of bleak sex like something out of Michel Houellebecq that have kept me listening.

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