In a world LOUSY with B-grade garage bands and wannabe punk rockers, Straight Arrows are back to show us all how it’s done! Side A features '21st Century'—a Straight Arrows-esque psychedelic punk/ near breakbeat report on the 21st Century from their LATEST LP On Top, while side B features 'Cyberbully,' a version of the A side reworked by Owen and legendary Sydney DJ and crate digger DJ Soup. Slowed down and ripe for the UK festival scene, guv'na!
7" $9.75
03/15/2019
New album from Sydney’s fuzzed out, psychedelic punk quartet STRAIGHT ARROWS.Overflowing with unbridled energy, you’d be forgiven for thinking On Top was the band’s debut album, but the third record for the Sydney quartet sounds as vital and as exciting as ever. Having spent years touring their incendiary live show around Australia and the world, Straight Arrows have honed their fresh, reverb-laden, fuzzed out, psychedelic punk sound into pointed perfection with On Top. From the frantic buzzsaw of “Nothing To Me”, to the break-beat groove of “21st Century”, to the tender outsider folk of “Dead Weight”, to the mind-melting psych-out that is “Buried Again”, this is the sound of a band that isn’t short on ideas and isn’t afraid to push the envelope of what people expect a Straight Arrows record to be.“Nothing's more boring than a bunch of the same guitar bullshit over and over again. We’ve taken the guitar bullshit, made it occasionally a little faster, and sometimes even a little slower too,” says vocalist, guitarist and chief songwriter Owen Penglis with a cheeky grin.Clearly he and his bandmates have cast a wider sonic net this time around, largely influenced by Penglis’ love of crate digging and his vast musical knowledge of the detritus of pop culture’s past. “Over the writing of this thing I was listening to a lot of 60s and 70s private press LPs from the USA, weird bubblegum, private press 45s from Australia, and a whole heap of 60s Jamaican rocksteady singles. Al (Grigg...
LP $20.25
03/15/2019
CD $16.00
03/15/2019
MP3 $9.90
10/26/2018
FLAC $11.99
10/26/2018
STRAIGHT ARROWS 2016 US TOUR DATES Nov 10 - Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA w/ Oh Sees Nov 11 - Home Sweet Home, New York Night Train, NYC w/ Jonathan Toubin Nov 12 - Bowery Ballroom, NYC w/Oh Sees Nov 13 - Warsaw, NYC w/Oh Sees Nov 14 - Zuzu, Cambridge, MA Nov 15 - Aurora, Providence RI w/Oh Sees Nov 16 - Wind-Up Space, Baltimore MD Nov 17 - Duke University Coffeehouse, Durham NC Nov 18 - Shanghai Nobbys, St Augustine FL Nov 19 - Will's Pub, Orlando FL Nov 21 - The Earl, Atlanta GA Nov 22 - The Pilot Light, Knoxville TN Nov 23 - Emporium, Chicago IL Nov 25 - Now That's Class, Cleveland OH Nov 26 - Union Pool, NYC
MP3 $0.99
10/21/2016
FLAC $1.29
10/21/2016
***Since releasing It’s Happening in 2010, STRAIGHT ARROWS have been touring the USA, releasing albums in the UK, cassettes in the USA, 7” singles in the USA and Italy, gracing the stages of the Sydney Opera House for Vivid Festival and headlining Sydney Town Hall as part of Sydney Festival. Who said punk isn’t high culture? Amongst all the madness, touring, recording, working, the Straight Arrows were writing their follow up album Rising. The result? Dancing music. Garage Punk nuggets that will get you up out of your dronesome slumber and force some serious rug cutting antics. This is hairy fuzzed out psychedelic garage pop without the patchouli-scented kaftans. Is it reckless? Is it fun? YEAH! Derr....it’s a new Straight Arrows record.
LP $13.75
09/16/2014
MP3 $9.90
08/18/2014
FLAC $11.99
08/18/2014
***Agitated is way pleased to be releasing the new / forthcoming album from the STRAIGHT ARROWS in the summer, and to get the motor running they are releasing a limited edition 7” with one track from the new album, “Make Up Your Mind” and one track exclusive to this release…..a cover of The Tempos’ “Two Timer.” This is dancing music, garage pop nuggets that will get you up out of your dronesome slumber and force some rug cutting antics. Easy reference points are Nuggets, Pebbles, and good times! This is psychedelic garage pop without the patchouli scented kaftans, more yr blue bomber bop than LSD loafabout! This lot are one of the best Sydney bands we’ve heard in a good long age, forget your scenes, “Australia is hip right now” genres, etc, this record is fun, and is not for lameo pigeonholing. There’s 500 black vinyl 7”… get with the beat!
7" $9.75
07/22/2014