Been a while between drinks, but thankfully Johnny Hunter are back with more post-punk angst in the form of ‘Frustration’.

And when I say back, I don’t mean back in the country… Alas, Johnny Hunter have packed up and moved to the UK, following three sold out Sydney farewell-for-now shows. We can only imagine their new home will be fertile hunting ground for the five-piece who have that late-70s British sound coursing through their veins – the doom and gloom of Euro winter will surely suit them well.

Their latest release ‘Frustration’ is a bit more synthy and dark than the stuff we heard on their 2022 debut full-length Want. This time frontman Nick Hutt is looking outwards as opposed to the more introspective of earlier work. And frankly, he’s not liking what he’s seeing…

“’Frustration’ is a call to overcome my utter distaste at the state of a world in which no one truly believes in anything except what they consume in order to be perceived. Both the left and right believe in nothing and use the consumer as a means to profit while they simultaneously get fucked,” Hutt says.

“Every generation has had the idea of “Hell” so to speak. Dante had the vast wood, and Eliot had the millions of dead soldiers walking around in London. I see our hell as being stuck in the middle of millions of apartments where all that we have is the stagnant light of consumer mediums that bleed us dry over and over again for the rest of time. Now watch me be a plastic man hiding in despair in a porno.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnUnuCqqEUg

Perfect time to remind you that Artist of the Week is presented by Boost Mobile, right? Eeep. You can buy/stream ‘Frustration’ right here and hit Johnny Hunter on IG here for there upcoming UK shows, both of which are at Great Escape fezzy.