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MONEY FOR ROPE - " Been In The Wars" LP

LIMITED DELUXE EDITION of 500 copies, 180 gram vinyl, and SUPER SPECIAL GATEFOLD COVER, XXL SIZE POSTER, LYRICS SHEET! and MP3 DOWNLOAD CARD with full LP. All copies are numbered by hand, and enveloped in MYLLAR (expensive but it don´t spoils the color over the years). It´s a special COLLECTORS EDITION. .... READ MORE ....

MONEY FOR ROPE (Melbourne, Australia)

If you haven’t been listening to Money For Rope, now is a ripe time to get started. The Money For Rope LP is a stunning production. Recorded and mixed by Steven Schram (The Vasco Era, Devastations, Little Red) the album follows years of intense touring across Australia, various festival appearances, and a run of 4 sneaky 7 inches, which are almost all sold out.
Six guys, two drumkits, two guitars, one bass guitar and four voices amounts to an impressive and perhaps surprisingly classy sound that you’d be daft to pass up.

The LP sounds like Nick Cave in surround sound, like Crowded House with a few more beers, like Midnight Oil but less oily… and like that indescribable Australian rock ‘n’ roll spirit that we still find in their contemporaries Fraser A Gorman, Mother & Son, Dan Kelly, The Drones and Damn Terran. It sounds somewhat like the eternal spirit of The Meanies living on into the 21st Century, but with more harmonies – unsurprisingly so, as Wally Meanie now manages them.

Like a lot of Aussie bands in this genre, Money For Rope aren’t afraid to be dark and deep in between rocking out and raising their glasses. ‘Misery Lane’ features some reasonably shocking lyrics and ‘Easy Way Out’, the closing track, traipses around suicidal tendencies. These guys sing songs of heartbreak and loss with gutsy guitars and driving drums. Get ready to drown your sorrows and that pint to the sound of Money for Rope’s evocative, 80s-style vocals. And yet they evoke the sounds of Split Enz, Dave Dobbyn and hell, even a bit of John Lennon (whose song ‘Gimme Some Truth’ may or may not be the inspiration for the band’s name).

You can hear lead singer Jules McKenzie warble, Bad Seeds-style, through this dark, yet strikingly energetic album, from more subdued numbers (‘Misery Lane’) to high-energy freight train songs (‘Hang ‘em High’) or lilting, surf-rock tinged, sort-of-romantic rock-ballads like ‘You’ll Be Gone’.

There’s something profoundly comforting about knowing that a bunch of guys who do jobs like manufacturing cassettes, mixing spice blends and boat restoration are creating this brand of sophisticated rock ‘n’ roll. It’s guys like this – everyday dudes – who are the backbone of our Aussie music industry. They like to go fishing. They like watching the footy. They are just normal dudes. They sing about things they think about at the pub; snippets of ideas and general manly musings – The Pursuit of Contentment, and often the Pursuit of ladies (& its associated heartbreak). And you know what? They write a damn good tune.