- Inedia, hailing from sleepy Shepparton, Victoria are the reincarnation of previous band Sky City. Although it’s near impossible to find any of Sky City’s material floating around the ether, the two originating members, Joel Parnell and Troy Dawson recruited new members and shifted focus to a heavier sound consisting of screeching vocals, fuzzy distortion and chaotic live performance. The result of which is Inedia. In 2010 the band released an EP titled Because Everything Else Kinda Sucks which garnered them a cult like following throughout Australia and supports for Children Collide and Violent Soho. Teaming with the theme of suitably apathetic release titles, the band are back with Life Sucks, Then You Die their 2013 debut full length produced by Australian rock’n’roll royalty Raul Sanchez - a Magic Dirt alumnus. It seems that it’s impossible that the final product could be anything but absolutely whiskey drenched, downtrodden and just plain messy.

Lackadaisical is the chosen single from the record and rightly so - it’s a perfect encapsulation of their core sound - offensively high pitched guitar noodling during the assigned solo, growls and howls of the highest ‘Motörhead-in-their-prime’ calibre and an energy that is just damn admirable. At three minutes and six seconds it affords just enough time to release all of your remaining energy for the day, then catch your breath again in time for Sugarblade which offers no new musical formula but is equally as meaty and captivating with its undulating riff and some of the most impressive vocals on the entire record: shifting from sinister whispers to squeals of the purest rock’n’roll form.

Inedia focus on the heavy and confrontational but this in no way means there aren’t a few classic, slow paced and atypically 90’s grunge tracks on the album - Esipram much like the drug of its namesake seems like a healing method for anxious, bedroom ridden teenagers with its sickly depressed lyrics and swelling chorus. The track is quintessentially Nirvana, Bleach-era and follows a formula akin to almost every Violent Soho song. Bubblegum is another disheveled grunge jam that pulsates aggressively once we hit the chorus. “They say you’re just bubblegum / But I could not live without ya” - it doesn’t make much sense but it doesn’t have to, the track is incredibly catchy.

This record can be very same-y but when you have a winning formula, why deviate? Reinventing the musical wheel is not their specialty but Inedia have crafted a record with fascinating, squealing interludes, demanding rock’n’roll bangers and downtrodden grunge spectacles meant to be accompanied by a goon sack and a heavy heart. If a song title such as I Like You (But You’re Shit) doesn’t entice you, I really don’t think Life Sucks, Then You Die is your bag, baby.

- Lizzie Irwin.