Ragged & Ecstatic by Yves Klein Blue

Ragged & Ecstatic, released by Dew Process on 7 July 2009, turned out to be the first and last album from Yves Klein Blue, the Brisbane band named after the colour International Klein Blue. Kevin Augunas and Caleb James produced it, with sessions split between Airlock Studios back home and Fairfax Recordings in Hollywood.

Michael Tomlinson sings and plays rhythm guitar, Charles Sale handles lead guitar and keys, and Sean Cook and Chris Banham hold down bass and drums, a band that had spent 2008 opening for the likes of Franz Ferdinand and the Fratellis and playing Big Day Out and Splendour in the Grass. The songs are wiry, restless indie rock with a knowing grin, and the record gathers up "Polka" from their debut EP alongside "Getting Wise" and "Make Up Your Mind". It made the ARIA top 50, and in the second half of 2010 the band called it quits over creative differences.

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