Civic

Civic

Selling Sucking Blackmail Bribes

Total Punk

***"CIVIC are fresh meat, one of those rare bands that formed perfectly whole and with true urgency. They gathered momentum immediately, playing every week at a different pub or house party across Australia and releasing a 12" and 7" in quick succession on Melbourne's Anti Fade label. Their recordings exhibit song-writing virtuosity that moves from tough glam, power pop and fall down drunk pub rock, a style that the ancients dubbed GUTTER ROCK, and their live show propels the energy of these songs with the precision and discipline of backstreet hardcore. A relentless work ethic has them front and centre in the roster of modern Melbourne's underground hustle, continuing the tradition of Australian rnr outlaws without any retro schtick. CIVIC is the real deal, the new generation of high voltage Australian rock n roll."—Daniel Stewart

Civic

Those Who No

Famous Class

***"Shortly after their debut, Melbourne's CIVIC return with their sophomore EP Those Who No—a fatalistic slab of power pop for the modern set. Recorded on a stint in Geelong, with BILLY GARDNER once again at the helm, Those Who No acts as a counter point to the gutter rock classicism and urban decay romantics of ‘New Vietnam,' and shifts it’s focus towards genre experimentation, bleaker insular realities and modern personal warfare. Over four tracks, JIM MCCULLOUGH, LEWIS HODGSON, DARCY GRIGG, ROLAND HLAVAKA and DAVID FORCIER, dance on the knife’s edge of mythology versus the mundane—an against all odds desperation that flirts with the anthemic yet only stokes the flames. Mid 70s glam and rock n roll tropes are pummeled beyond recognition referencing the past but predominantly pointing to the future. There are forces at work here and Civic aren’t a band merely content to play to their strengths - they are a true sum of their parts who get their kicks testing their limitations."—Ben Hepworth

Civic

New Vietnam

Anti-Fade

***With their inaugural 12” EP release on Anti-Fade Records, CIVIC’s debut is relentless, dynamic, uncompromising gutter rock at it’s finest. Formed in Melbourne 2017 by Jim McCullough, Lewis Hodgson, Darcy Grigg, Roland Hlavka and David Forcier, their highly anticipated debut was recorded shortly afterwards by Billy Gardner (Ausmuteants, The Living Eyes) in Geelong. From the brutal opening of ‘Nuclear Son’ to the incessant riffing of ‘Burning Steel’ CIVIC beat out a perfect mixture of mid 70s gutter rock classicism and hardcore precision, whilst switching up the pace on tracks such as ‘Street Machine Dreams’ and ‘Shackled Man’, with plenty of urban decay romantics, dead boy balladry and modern Australian underground hustle. Australian import.