Beasts of Bourbon return withLittle Animals

Wed 28th Mar, 2007 in Local News

Some records should not be taken lightly. This one is the real deal – an unexpected gift from the rock gods. The brand new Beasts of Bourbon album is one of those classic albums, recorded and mixed in three days. It’s their first album of new songs in nine years and it will kick your behind when it’s released on April 21 through Albert Productions via Sony BMG.

Little Animals, the long awaited album from Australian rock music legends Beasts of Bourbon, arrives against considerable odds. The last time Tex Perkins, Spencer Jones, Charlie Owen, Brian Hooper and Tony Pola made a record, its title turned out to be succinctly prophetic. At the end of 1997, Gone saw them off on the longest hiatus of the Beasts’ 23-year tenure, for reasons best unasked or forgotten.

Over six albums of excoriating, low-life rock’n’roll, Beasts of Bourbon had carved their name large and indelibly in Australian rock lore. In (evil) spirit they’re kin to AC/DC, the Stones and The Birthday Party; in real life their lineage encompasses The Johnnys, The Surrealists, The Cruel Sea, The New Christs, Tex, Don and Charlie and too many crash-and-burn blues/punk rock outfits that fell foul of the old death or glory equation some time over the last quarter-century.

Their first single, I Don’t Care About Nothing Anymore, demonstrates the vigorously unpredictable and explosive atmosphere that we have all been missing. And there are nine other tracks that give us all every good reason to get excited about the new edition to their sentient repertoire. And as for Tex’s famous disclaimer about the Beasts’ ongoing volatility: “It’s a fairly destructive entity and I would think very carefully about unleashing it on the world again.”

“Fuck the world,” he says. “It’s us I’m worried about.”

Little Animals is unleashed to the awaiting public on April 21 through Albert Productions via Sony BMG.

The Beasts of Bourbon will be touring in June with dates to be announced soon.