Real Rare Whale by Dune Rats

Real Rare Whale, the fourth album from Brisbane's Dune Rats, was due in June 2022 until vinyl manufacturing trouble pushed it back to 29 July, and the wait didn't hurt: it went to number 6 on the ARIA chart. The band billed it as the fastest, funnest and most insane thing they had ever recorded, a set of songs made for playing to rooms packed with sweaty bodies.

That's about right. Danny Beus on guitar and lead vocals, Brett Jansch on bass and the drummer who goes by Beer Can tear through a run of breakneck surf-shack party songs, goofy, loud and built to be shouted back, with the single "What a Memorable Night" among them. Rolling Stone Australia heard it as a cheerful antidote to pandemic gloom, Kerrang made note of how daft and fast it all was, and it earned a nomination for Best Hard Rock or Heavy Metal Album at the 2022 ARIA Music Awards.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.