Frenzal Rhomb attack

Wed 6th Jul, 2011 in Local News

Only last week Frenzal Rhomb’s 1999 record A Man’s Not A Camel
was voted the 92nd Hottest Australian album of all time by triple j listeners. A decade since they released that classic the Rhomb return with album number eleven, Smoko At The Pet Food Factory.

In true Frenzal style the band addresses many ‘big themes’ on the record – from pet food themed indignity to songs about “cockroaches, goths, racists, rapists and heaps and heaps of ciggies.”

As the story goes the band headed over to Colorado to work with the legendary Bill Stevenson (Descendents), whose studio operates within the grounds of his large pet food factory. While the experience was confronting for the four vegetarian band members, apparently the music that resulted is “so chumpy, you could carve it.”

While we never really know when to actually believe anything that comes out of Frenzal Rhomb’s collective mouth, we do know that come September they’ll be taking these new entrails out on the road, supported by US punks Teenage Bottlerocket.

Smoko at the Pet Food Factory album launch:

Thursday 1st September – Cambridge Hotel, Newcastle
Friday 2nd September – Metro Theatre, Sydney
Saturday 3rd September – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
Tuesday 6th September – The National Hotel, Geelong
Wednesday 7th September – The Loft, Warrnambool
Thursday 8th September – The Gov, Adelaide
Friday 9th September – Arena, Brisbane
Saturday 10th September – Civic Hotel, Perth