As the market for singles sinks in the mire of phone tones and P2P file-sharing, acts seem to be focussing on albums and failing to write the big hooks that will become tomorrow's classics. In fact, how many locally produced songs from the last 3 years will become tomorrow's sentimental favourites? Not many. I think 78 Saab's Beat Of Your Drum could have that rare distinction. It's as though the Triple J favourites have sold their collective soul to the devil in order craft a superb old-school flavour for this cut; a Beatles-esque sense of epic intensity, culminating in a crescendo that matches an awesome fuzzy distortion with Ben Nash's piercing vocals. When the wonderfully predictable middle-8 chimes in, it's absolutely huge and it acts as yet another nod to the classics. In some ways Beat Of Your Drum is formulaic, but in the nicest possible way, respecting the methods of the masters of guitar-powered pop. If this isn't a hit, the entire Australian music industry sucks.

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Tracklisting
1 BEAT OF YOUR DRUM
2 COME ON
3 BLUNT SWORDS
4 SOUND OF LIES
5 BEAT OF YOUR DRUM (VIDEO)

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