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CIVIC

Chrome Dipped

ATO (UK)

Coloured LP

£20.99

Silver smoke vinyl.

Cat Number

ATO0692

Release date
30 May '25
Format Info

Silver smoke vinyl.

One of the most exhilarating bands in recent years, Australian band CIVIC reimagine proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty. On their new album, 'Chrome Dipped', they push themselves and their sound even further. The title speaks to a desire to break down barriers. “I like the idea of 'Chrome Dipped' being a mind set. It’s like a casting of your character, or like an outer shell. One of the main objectives for this album was to make a drastic turn in our sound. Break the mold, melt the steel.

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1. The Fool
2. Chrome Dipped
3. Gulls Way
4. The Hogg
5. Starting All The Dogs Off
6. Trick Pony
7. Amissus
8. Poison
9. Fragrant Rice
10. Kingdom Come
11. Swing Of The Noose

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Taken By Force

ATO

The Melbourne-based five-piece CIVIC return with their visceral new sophomore album ‘Taken By Force’ - aptly described by the band as “1984 meets Endless Summer.” CIVIC have reimagined the reckless intensity of proto-punk for an era of endless uncertainty and have become one of the most exhilarating bands to emerge from the Melbourne-scene in recent years. 'Taken By Force' was produced by Radio Birdman frontman Rob Younger and mixed/mastered by Mike Young (Eddy Current, Total Control).

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Future Forecast

ATO

An origin story since time immemorial, this DIY garage rock five piece came together in 2018 through the traps of the Melbourne music scene. Bonding over a shared love of tightly coiled riffs and a collective musical ethos, Civic made a name for themselves through the intensity of their live shows, which would become local folklore.

On ‘Future Forecast’, Civic pay homage to the classics, but pivot on them with avant-charged edge. It’s raw, searing guitars, pummelling rhythms, driving bass and vocals that lock into and synergize with their wall of sound. All of this is balanced by the raucous and restrained weaving of melodies and textures, and vocal variation which broadens their sound past any one genre label.

There’s the horn-fuelled drive of album opener ‘Radiant Eye’, the power pop-laden hook of ‘As Seen On TV’, the emotively atmospheric and vocally subdued ‘Sunday Best’, all culminating with closer ‘Come To Know’, before ending in a tightly wound splay of feedback and groove.

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Radiant Eye
Another Day
As Seen On TV
Just A Fix
Tell The Papers
Sunday Best
Shake Like Death
Back To You
Hollywood Nights In
Hamburg
Velvet Casino
Clone
Come To Know

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Darkstar

Civic Jams

Warp

LP

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Cat Number

WARPLP312

Release date
19 Jun '20

Darkstar announce their fourth album ‘Civic Jams’ for release on Warp.

On their most personal record to date, Darkstar counterbalance observations of their home with those of the community surrounding it. ‘Civic Jams’ is a photonegative of a dance record shaped by a dialogue between shoegaze atmospherics and UK bass music’s ‘hardcore continuum’. Darkstar find themselves at once looking homeward and venturing further into their own psychic hinterland with each record.

They’ve covered a lot of ground from the introspective expanse of their debut ‘North’ [2010], to utopian visions of society in ‘News From Nowhere’ [2013] and the unique dynamics of a pre-Brexit northern England on ‘Foam Island’ [2015]. On their latest offering, home is within reach.

Inspired by the intervening years, Darkstar (aka Aiden Whalley and James Young) show how the personal can be political and reveal more of themselves than they’ve ever done before. Imagine emotional realism built from spectral rave echoes, anchored in timeless songs of love and loss in the digital now and you’ve got it. Patterns of isolation are increasingly easy to fall into, especially when public spaces where people play, socialise, dance and protest are closed. ‘Civic Jams’ is about reminiscing over loss, whilst moving forward with those we love. It offers an abstract look at life’s nuances and the search to find something to hold on to and enjoy.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Forest
A2. Jam
A3. 1001
A4. 30 Feat. Laura Groves
A5. Wolf
B1. Loon
B2. Tuesday
B3. Text
B4. Blurred

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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 (living eyes / ausmuteants / Anti Fade) 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 Hlavka 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 pummelled 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).

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A1 - Flick The Station
A2 - Pleasure
B1 - Heat
B2 - Needle In The Camel's Eye

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