Regurgitator’s tenth album INVADER arrives on APRIL 26 and to celebrate the band has announced an extensive national tour beginning May 10 in Hobart. Plus … a new single THIS IS NOT A POP SONG (featuring Peaches) from the upcoming album is out and about now!
This is Not A Pop Song … but surely it is. Liars! Singalong chorus, upbeat, dance vibe and a retro video clip that wouldn’t be out of place beaming direct to you in your Sunday evening comfy chair circa Countdown 1980. It’s The Buggles meets The Flying Lizards meets Pop Muzik’s M but with Peaches.
In Regurgitator’s own speak …
Pop goes the culture! Like a stun to the head it leaves one careering across the highway of a neverending invasion of cultural detritus… strewn across the landscape of your mind with blips and beeps and repetitive phases.
Regurgitator tumble no drier with first earworm from latest greatest album Invader – THIS IS NOT A POP SONG featuring long term friend and pop cult compadre Peaches on the raptural verbs.
“Pop was the baby I meant to leave on the doorstep of the orphanage but whose wailing pierced my heart, coercing me into the servitude of unplanned parenthood. It was that pink plastic car sitting in the middle of the hallway which, in the half light of dawn I tripped over and made yelp in its 8 bit ‘white’ reggae. It was one short amnesia after another, one more return to Oz, one more glance across the cabin of a crowded train to meet the eyes of a stranger just long enough to allow a tentative exchange of knowing smiles, only to then reach my stop and be spewed out onto the platform in a sluice of my fellow commuters.” – Quan
“Excited to be a part of this non-sensical not pop but pop gold!” – Peaches
Culture, like nature is wild, untamed and of it’s own kind and habitat outside of the smothering arms of commerce. In any undomesticated sense it cares little for such invasive nonsense. Then came the hounds of royalty, all snarling and snapping with their wilful acts of enclosure, ripping the flesh from delicate bones in their infiltration of such fall’s gold. Cannibalising the wild and free for the fattening cauldron of insistent growth that stumbles collapsing flat on the earth, filled with all lifeless content and glossy sheen.
Near on two years ago now since the band spontaneously ventured to Plainland to start baking up something… that over time managed to rise and rise through the turbulence of creative exploration like an invasive species inhabiting their headspace. Boundaries crossed and concepts forged through trials of an era as the irrepressible drivers of creative practice probe and pop, ending up in a late stampede to wilfully arrange itself into what is their tenth full length studio album, evidently entitled INVADER. Teasing much in times of lateral reflection on all that constitutes invasive behaviour – from country to body, from culture to community, from mind to planet.
Featuring 14 tracks of inspired high infection, hooking up with prime collaborators PEACHES, JK47 and TYSON YUNKAPORTA (Sand Talk) to turn out their most incisive album since time began.
“This work is a fleeting reflection in the surface film of a small bubble floating through the psychotic dreamworld of the colony.” – Quan
“For near on 30 years I have lived Regurgitator… like a horse fly galloping freely across a sticky gourd absorbed in a glorious dynamo of sweetness, all caught up in a mutual regarding state of creative pleasure and critical engagement. We have journeyed far and wide together… going on the road and seeing maybe 90% of the thousand plus shows they have played… one might just figure I am their biggest fan… maybe even their harshest critic. Whatever the case… I have seen and experienced much over our time but nothing like where they reside in this current of moments. They are brimming with a zest and drive I have not witnessed before… consumed with a musical sensibility, awareness and comprehension that has brought them to the outright confidence of INVADER. A wildly swinging tightrope of maturity and immaturity balanced on the edge of anything. I know I come draped in rags of bias but this latest album, as much as their live performances of late, breathes deeply with a blaze of creative fire that leaves me reeling with their self-belief… career refining… they have found their mountain and stand tall like the trees that crown it. I feel immense privilege to have forged a distinct pathway together unshackled from the infection of tyrannous capitalism, wandering our free minded way through the ragged tracks of creativity just falling to this inevitable high point. Enough of the hype Paul why don’t ya!” – Paul Curtis
Artborne wild! Damn the invaders and that hirsute of greed!
We recognise that these lands upon which we live and work are stolen, that the First Nations of this land are subject to a brutal and ongoing colonisation by invaders that began in 1788. We pledge to support both the truth telling of these histories and an Indigenous lead voice of struggle, dissent, knowledge, connection and creation under the shadow of this colonial system in which we currently live. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge their custodial connections to the earth and waters of this country as both vital and infinite.
REGURGITATOR album – INVADER – occuring April 26 through ABC Music / Valve Records
1. Cocaine Runaway
2. Pest
3. This is not a Pop Song feat. Peaches
4. Australiyeah
5. Epic
6. That’s Not Nermal
7. Content
8. The Bastard Poem That Nobody Wanted feat. Tyson Yunkaporta
9. INVADER
10. The Edge of Losing it
11. Dirty Old Men feat. JK47
12. Pee Pee Man
13. Wrong People
14. Tsunami
STREAMING pre-save/pre-order here https://snd.click/Invader
Also pre-order available on BANDCAMP http://regurgitator.bandcamp.com/
As well as VINYL and CD pre-order via retail and the online store www.valverecords.com.au
WEBSITUATION: www.regurgitator.net
BANDCRAMP: http://regurgitator.bandcamp.com/
FACEBOOKINGS: www.facebook.com/pages/Regurgitator
INSTANTGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/regurgitators
METUBE GURG BOX: www.youtube.com/user/Regurgitators
SPUTIFIED https://open.spotify.com/artist/6n3YUZcayLRuAunJUUelvz
PEACHES
https://www.teachesofpeaches.com/
Facebook.com/officialpeaches
Instagram.com/peachesnisker
Twitter.com/peaches
Youtube.com/PeachesTV
THIS IS NOT A POP VIDEO
Here goes… beep beep! Step back into a world of analogue vid for new tune This is Not a Pop Song.
Edited by Quan – Outfits (regurgitator) by Beilharz
REGURGITATOR album – INVADER occuring April 26 through ABC Music / Valve Records
Pre-save/pre-order HERE
Also pre-order available on BANDCAMP
As well as VINYL and CD pre-order via retail and the online store www.valverecords.com.au/shop/
Consume presents
REGURGITATOR it’s so invasive… tour 2024
with best friends PARTY DOZEN
plus at select shows… CRY CLUB
DISPLEASURE (nz), MONSTER ZOKU ONSOMB! and
THE SUBCULTURE CLIQUE
TICKETS for everyone NOW Onsale via https://linktr.ee/regurgitator
FRI 10 MAY nipaluna hobart ODEON THEATRE
SAT 11 MAY wuwinilili forth FORTH PUB
SUN 12 MAY kanamaluka launceston DU CANE BREWING
THUR 16 MAY djilang geelong LAMBYS
FRI 17 MAY dja dja wurrung castlemaine THEATRE ROYAL
SAT 18 MAY naarm melbourne THE FORUM
SUN 19 MAY bunarong frankston SINGING BIRD STUDIOS – ALL-AGES SHOW
Plus PARTY DOZEN, CRY CLUB, WOLFPACK and KAI CULT
Doors 2.00pm to 7.00pm. Tickets from oztix and eventbrite
https://tickets.oztix.com.au/outlet/event/35191e63-324f-49ae-9942-fdf2eaca985c
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/consume-presents-regurgitator-w-party-dozen-wolfpack-kai-cult-guests-tickets-872290031967
THUR 23 MAY wooditjup margaret river THE RIVER
FRI 24 MAY boorloo perth RECHABITE
SAT 25 MAY walyalup fremantle FREO SOCIAL
THUR 30 MAY dharawal wollongong WAVES
FRI 31 MAY muloobinba newcastle KING ST
SAT 1 JUNE gadigal eora sydney ROUNDHOUSE
FRI 7 JUNE tardanya adelaide THE GOV
SAT 8 JUNE ngunnawal ngambri canberra THE BASO
SUN 9 JUNE bungambrawatha albury SS&A CLUB
THUR 13 JUNE cavanbah byron bay BEACH HOTEL
FRI 14 JUNE kombumerri gold coast MIAMI MARKETTA
SAT 15 JUNE meanjin brisbane THE TIVOLI
SUN 16 JUNE meanjin brisbane THE PRINCESS – ALL-AGES SHOW
Plus PARTY DOZEN and CRY CLUB
Doors 3.00pm. Tickets from ticketmaster
https://www.ticketmaster.com.au/event/2500606DBC741981?did=venue
THUR 20 JUNE yuwi mackay SEABREEZE
FRI 21 JUNE gurambilbarra townsville THE DALRYMPLE
SAT 22 JUNE gimuy cairns TANKS ARTS CENTRE
TICKETS for everyone NOW Onsale via https://linktr.ee/regurgitator