Album Review: Paid Salvation by A. Swayze and the Ghosts

Emerging on to the music scene with their 2017 self-titled EP, they're now delivering with their fast-paced, frenetic debut album Paid Salvation. A refreshingly honest record which manages to be fun but meaningful too, the outspoken 4-piece are delving into issues such as abortion rights, real life stories of mob-rule and their distrust of social media. along with a conscious use of their platform to be vocal about politics and immigration, for example, and they do this while championing equal rights throughout.

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It'd be easy, half a world away and especially in a time when international travel is one of the biggest of no-nos, to paint Antipodean rock as a monolith of noisy mullets, all wisecracking and smashing beer cans into foreheads. A joyous image, perhaps, but while Tasmanian outfit A Swayze & the Ghosts do match their mainland cousins in both decibels and throaty roar, they're swapping bogan boisterousness for something devilishly darker and more restrained on 'Paid Salvation' - think the organised chaos of '70s NYC post-punk, or even the near-drone of erstwhile Leeds rockers Eagulls. And even as snarking on social media has moved into decidedly passe territory, the chorus of 'Connect To Consume' does remain a stellar one.

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