When Feel It Records (Ohio) picks up something from Australia, it's time to take notice, It Thing launching into it with a two-fisted grip, kicking it into action and ripping into it, sounding like both addressing it directly and also breaking free, a bike swerving between cars to get past the city limits, kicking back on the sissy bar as it hits the outskirts, the momentum taking over, town in the rearview fading…jumping up in the seat and gripping into blacktop for the two-minute warning rocker coming at you quick as a kick on the flipside. It's so great to find bands making 7" like this one, ones that do the format up proper, one 3-minute number, another 2-minute blast attack, not wasting time with anything but the stuff that makes me happy to be roaming this planet at this moment in time. Get It! It’s a It Thing.-- winch
Enigmatic four piece It Thing return with a new 7” single, their first release since 2021's ‘Syrup’ LP. Offering two tracks, "Constant State" and "P.C.H.", It Thing deliver on the visceral, raw energy that they left us wanting for. On this occasion, Marthouse Records (AU) team up with Feel It Records (US) for a broader release.
Formed in Nipaluna/Hobart’s beloved Brisbane Hotel beer garden in early 2019 over a thirst for classic punk rock - and without much else to do, It Thing's ‘Syrup’ LP saw the then-Tasmanian band explode onto the worldwide underground like a shot in the dark. Emerging from small town obscurity, they delivered a record packed with power pop/proto-punk gold. Gimmie Zine put it best: “Bold, loud, with hook ramming into hook, It Thing deliver 9 tracks that zip by at the speed of light with an inspired cleverness and simplicity.”
As It Thing hammer through their latest single, the endearing simplicity and rawness almost places the listener in the room with the band - or the basement, as it were. Recorded in the basement of the house the songs were written in, frontperson Charlotte Gigi calls it, "A last hurrah for the old It Thing headquarters before the defection." The band have since succumbed to the gravitational pull of Naarm/Melbourne to link up with label mates Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice, Gut Health, Bench Press, et al.
Formed in Nipaluna/Hobart’s beloved Brisbane Hotel beer garden in early 2019 over a thirst for classic punk rock - and without much else to do, It Thing's ‘Syrup’ LP saw the then-Tasmanian band explode onto the worldwide underground like a shot in the dark. Emerging from small town obscurity, they delivered a record packed with power pop/proto-punk gold. Gimmie Zine put it best: “Bold, loud, with hook ramming into hook, It Thing deliver 9 tracks that zip by at the speed of light with an inspired cleverness and simplicity.”
As It Thing hammer through their latest single, the endearing simplicity and rawness almost places the listener in the room with the band - or the basement, as it were. Recorded in the basement of the house the songs were written in, frontperson Charlotte Gigi calls it, "A last hurrah for the old It Thing headquarters before the defection." The band have since succumbed to the gravitational pull of Naarm/Melbourne to link up with label mates Dr. Sure’s Unusual Practice, Gut Health, Bench Press, et al.
released June 23, 2023
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Axel Murphy.
Written & performed by It Thing on the stolen lands of the Muwinina People.
Artwork by Charlotte Gigi.
Recorded, mixed & mastered by Axel Murphy.
Written & performed by It Thing on the stolen lands of the Muwinina People.
Artwork by Charlotte Gigi.
