Radios Appear by Radio Birdman

Radios Appear, the first full-length album from Australian punk band Radio Birdman, was cut at Trafalgar Studios in Sydney across 1976 and 1977, and it reached people the hard way. Trafalgar sold it by mail order, and the rest went out of the backs of station wagons belonging to the band and their friends, a do-it-yourself hustle that showed the Australian punks who came after how it could be done.

The music hits like a fist through a windscreen: punk rock with hard rock's heft, the guitars loud and mean, the songs short on patience. Birdman even lifted the title from a Blue Öyster Cult song, "Dominance and Submission", a nod to one of their key early influences. Plenty hailed the record as a breakthrough for Australian rock, a clean break from the sleepy scene of the mid-'70s.

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