Children of Telepathic Experiences by Gerling

Children of Telepathic Experiences was Gerling's first full album, a 1998 release on Reliant, a since-folded imprint of Festival Mushroom Records, and it sounds like a western Sydney guitar-pop band that got bored of guitar pop halfway through and started pulling the wires out. By then the trio was Darren Cross on guitar and lead vocals, Paul Towner, better known as Presser, on drums, and Burke Reid on guitar and vocals, Reid having come in for founding guitarist Brad Herdson in 1997.

The band co-produced it with Steve Foster, who stayed on for the next record, and it's a restless, skewed thing, experimental rock with electronic itches and a pop hook buried under every detour ("Enter Spacecapsule" tells you plenty about the mood). The ARIA Music Awards took notice, nominating it in 1999 for Best Adult Alternative Album and Breakthrough Artist - Album. The follow-up, When Young Terrorists Chase the Sun, would carry them into the ARIA top 50.

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