OLD MATE - Maraby LP

Adelaide-via-Melbourne band Old Mate recorded most of their second album on an old sheep station twenty-minutes outside Hawker. The property, owned by frontman Pat Telfer’s grandparents, is named Maraby and now so too is Old Mate’s new record. Maraby is rowdier and rockier than 2014’s It Is What It Is, but with Telfer’s astute observations of life made from the inner city, country and suburban fringes, it's an album that has everything from dark punk ("Police In the Valley") to light country jams ("Gold Mine").