Deliverance by You Am I

Deliverance, You Am I's 2002 album, followed Dress Me Slowly and found Tim Rogers, the band's songwriter, guitarist and frontman, in no mood to overthink things. By his own later account, all they were after was short, three-minute songs about being in love, about sex, and about the plain joy of being in a rock 'n' roll band. He also reckoned pretty much everybody connected with the group can't stand it, which is not a line you often hear from a man about his own record.

With Andy Kent, Russell Hopkinson and Davey Lane alongside him, Rogers keeps it scrappy and hooky: the power pop that had once given them three straight number-one debuts in Australia with Hi Fi Way, Hourly, Daily and #4 Record, now rattled out with a grin and a shrug. "Who Put the Devil in You" was the one that made the countdowns. Convicts came next.

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