Hungry Ghost by Violent Soho

Hungry Ghost, Violent Soho's third studio album, hit the shelves in September 2013 through I Oh You, and it's the record where the Brisbane four-piece stopped being a local secret. Luke Boerdam sings and plays guitar alongside James Tidswell, with Luke Henery on bass and Michael Richards on drums, and between them they kick up a fuzz-drenched racket in the lineage of Nirvana, Mudhoney, the Pixies and the Smashing Pumpkins. They call it stoner pop; everybody else calls it grunge.

The title comes from a Buddhist idea Boerdam found in the activist book Culture Jam, a picture of someone so consumed by wanting that they lose themselves, which he read as a portrait of people hollowed out by a spoon-fed reality. "Covered in Chrome" is the big one, a slacker anthem that explodes into a chorus built for screaming along. The album went gold in Australia in September 2014 and paved the road to the chart-topping Waco.

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