Shriekback – Go Bang! (VG+/VG+) – LP, Australasia 1988

Go Bang! is an LP by Shriekback from 1988 released on the Island Records label.

About this album

Go Bang! is one of Shriekback’s most accessible and rhythm-focused albums, sharpening the band’s art-rock instincts into taut new wave, funk and dark pop. Released in 1988, it followed the group’s mid-1980s run of cult-favourite records and found Barry Andrews and company leaning harder into bass-heavy grooves and clipped, danceable arrangements. The title track, along with cuts like Intoxication and Over The Wire, shows how the band could make angular ideas feel immediate without losing their unsettling edge. For listeners drawn to British post-punk that crossed over towards club energy, Go Bang! captures Shriekback in a lean, stylistically distinctive form.

Genre: Punk & Alternative