AustraliA, Robot

Australia Copertina!!

Okay, so, first things first: AustraliA is Olga (drums/bass/synth) and Mr. Xicano (guitar/vocals) and they are not Australian. They’re from Pisa, Italy, and they play synth-heavy, hard-fuzz punk rock.

I like them because they’re brash and refreshing and just going for it.

Here are two of my favorite tracks from Robot:

Hotter Than Me, where they stomp on the fuzz pedal and then drop in some jaggedly perfect synth arpeggios just to keep things interesting:
 

 
It Will Be, where the steady, distorted, surfy chug of the guitar is the background against which the bright sharp clean synths sparkle and shine: