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THE START OF SOMETHING GREAT

Grunge is back, baby! And while it may be the gloomy, suburban streets of Seattle that it first took off, there’s a decent argument to be made for Canberra as the genre’s new hotspot. Case in point: Moaning Lisa. It was 2016 when the quartet first burst onto the scene, and over the past five years, they’ve cultivated an ironclad identity of unremitting fierceness, rough and rugged in sound with all the emotional intensity to match.

According to frontwoman Charlie Versegi, the band’s debut album, , is “a very no-bullshit, cutthroat record” – one that is “defiantly rooted in reality” wherein every track cuts “straight to the point, no f***ing around”. These kinds of quotes usually reek of PR fodder (this one does indeed

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