GOOD GRIEF
It’s a simple fact of life that every relationship has its ups and downs – the same is true for all your favourite bands. Those cheesy, oversaturated press shots where they’re all laughing and slinging their arms over another’s shoulder? That shit happens maybe 0.3 percent of the time, tops. Though their timeline has been studded with milestones and accolades, Brisbane quintet WAAX have bumped over their fair share of potholes on the road to success. And that, in part, is why their debut album – the bold, biting and boisterous Big Grief – makes an earthquake of an impact; the traumatic fallout is audible in every battered wail and gristly scream that frontwoman Marie ‘Maz’ DeVita spits.
She fills us in: “The whole album is about exploring loss. It’s not about death or anything, more just people coming in and out of your life, and how you
