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Crime In Australia is the new LP from Party Dozen, the duo of Kirsty Tickle and Jonathan Boulet. It builds on the momentum of their breakthrough 2022 album The Real Work with a boundary-pushing barrage of saxophone, drums, and electronic manipulation.

The album is conceptually split into halves: 'order' and 'disorder'. Opener 'Coup de Gronk' for instance finds the band "as catchy and danceable as we’ve ever been." 'The Big Man Upstairs' also offers a moment of relative calm with its layered, shimmering guitars, before giving way to the chaotic sounds of 'Piss on Earth' and relentless rhythms of 'Judge Hammer'.

Recorded live in a 12 sqm studio using Boulet's childhood drum kit, Crime In Australia captures the raw intensity of Party Dozen's performances. Facing each other in the space as they play, "there’s lots of drums in the sax and there’s lots of sax in the drums." As always the duo's DIY ethos extends to the production, with Tickle and Boulet handling the recording, mixing, and mastering themselves.

The songs are more focused and more unhinged than before - an exhilarating record that cements their place in the vanguard of experimental music.

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