All That We Know is the second album by Byron Bay Auzzie pub-punks Mini Skirt who are Jesse Pumphrey, Jacob Pumphrey, Jacob Boylan and Cam Campbell. The album was mastered by Mikey Young.
The album opens with the albums main single Pottsville River that's one of the less romantic river songs, they are waiting for something good to happen, somehow it never does when you are close to the Pottsville River.
Roundabouts has them stuck in the Australian equivalent of Milton Keynes going round endless roundabout, trying to figure out what they really know, they come and go round and round once more, the guitars getting laconic amongst the desperation.
Smart Enough to come up with another catchy riff, to hector the speaker of the house with, hoping to get the idiots in power to listen to them like that's gonna happen. Chew The Cud like you've got four stomachs and get on with things, this gets full of anger at how wrong things have gotten recently. They can't even keep their car on the road.
Been A While an eco-punk rant against all the pollution and filth they must wade through, trying to get things to be safe again, this is angsty full of worries that everything has been poisoned over a chugging repetitive riff driving the point home.
White Range Club is full of the dread you might feel, when talking to a stranger who thinks differently to your own personal mood board, can you co-exist or not, or will you just stick to your own echo chamber, instead of educating yourself talking to all sorts of other people.
Mud has them stuck deep in the Mud with some folks who haven't been sober for four years, the rain just won't let up, like the guitars and drums battering your brain, Lock the doors on your range rover and avoid all the death stalking your town. Squeeze Down has splenetic guitars ready to attack anything that comes into view down on the range, will they feel better if they fill something full of lead, will it get them past the guilt for what went wrong.
Stay Soft gets close to a Joy Division bassline, while they have a pop at someone from a different postcode, like they are on a sink estate in a ruined city, fighting for scraps and trying to keep outsiders on the outside, abusing anyone they can, to try to make themselves feel better, low self esteem of the downtrodden are the core of this bitter song, they really wish those racist pigs wouldn't burst there bubble.
Ned Kelly Letterbox appears to be an Auzzie euphemism, for someone whose fate will be sealed before the end of this urgent screed against racist stupidity, while trying to stay off the sauce and stop being so light fingered. The album closes with Series 3 a melodrama with sudden death and sadness of being dumped, left all alone again, quite why they are soggy to the bone like a salad roll is anyone's guess, but it's a chanted chorus to get you scratching your head at all the intolerance they talk about.
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