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In My Dreams

by Sunday Painters

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1.
Like a Reptile 01:54
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2.
Venus (bathed in misogyny) 01:01
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3.
Heart of a Siren 03:18
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4.
Rebel Rebel 03:40
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5.
Part Two 01:53
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6.
In My Dreams 10:01
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7.
Let'$ Be Moderne 01:55
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I'm a Car Crash 02:52
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9.
Please Kill Me 08:09
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about

The Sunday Painters were wide-ranging DIY art-punks. Operating out of Wollongong, Australia in the early 80s, they seemed to want to be every band from the Velvet Underground to King Crimson to the Sex Pistols to Throbbing Gristle. And they wrote catchy, often beautiful, songs, the greatest of which are also commentaries on the costs of containing such multitudes.

But few people heard them. Wollongong was a working-class town, and the Painters had to make and distribute their three singles and two LPs in editions of 250 or 500 copies on their own Terminal Records. Combine that scarcity with their rapid shifts from pop to punk to industrial, and it’s easy to understand that anybody who even found the records might have been daunted by the vast claim of a band tethered just enough to London and New York to know what was afoot there, but sufficiently distant to go off on a marsupial evolution all their own.

The Sunday Painters were formed in late 1978 by Peter Raengel and Peter MacKinnon. Their first single, 1979’s 'Alternatives To Perfection', was a garage-DIY take on the Velvets. For their next single, 1980’s 'Painting By Numbers', they recorded a crunching, electro-punk cover of Bowie’s 'Rebel Rebel' that got modest airplay on Sydney’s 2JJJ. Their final 7", 1981’s 'Three Kinds Of Escapism', led with 'Let’$ Be Moderne', which combined wistful backing vocals by bassist Kerrie Erwin, a spiky “post-modernist guitar solo,” and a steelworker’s metallic bashing to create a snappy, industrial pop-punk classic.

All songs by the Painters, except 'Rebel Rebel' [Bowie]

Collects the band’s three 7"s, originally released as TER 001, TER 002, and TER 003.

Transferred from the original reels.
Remastered by Jonathan Schenke.
Included is a PDF of the reissue LP’s insert (by Dan Selzer)

For a copy of the reissue LP, please contact Whats Your Rupture through the label's page at whatsyourrupture.bandcamp.com

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released June 4, 2023

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The Sunday Painters were a wide-ranging DIY art-punk band from Australia's 'Steel City'. They released records and cassettes on their own Terminal Records between 1979 and 1985.

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