This week's PBS Feature Album is Serious Acts, the third album by Naarm/Melbourne punk trio CLAMM.
The group, comprised of Jack Summers, Miles Harding and Stella Rennex, delve into the tumultuous experience of youth striving to lead an authentic and principled life in an increasingly chaotic world. Their music confronts the challenges of navigating entrenched systems of power and oppression while striving to preserve mental well-being and a strong sense of self. Through their raw and visceral sound, CLAMM aspires to foster community, ignite creativity, and provide a channel for catharsis.
Serious Acts continues the band’s signature raw intensity, with frontman Summer’s commanding vocals and incisive lyricism delving deep into the highs and lows of human existence.
Whilst CLAMM address hardships and inequalities with unwavering clarity, there’s also a certain solace to be found in the unity that sits at the core of the band. It’s knit into their existence and writing process, which doesn’t follow any strict formula but builds from an idea or element that one of them might come up with or bring to rehearsal sessions, then developing that collectively.
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Serious Acts, and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl: simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday June 8.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Special Features - 'Che Guevara T-Shirt'
Shepparton Airplane - 'Forecast'
Tropical Fuck Storm - 'Teeth Marché'
The Maggie Pills - 'Velobell'
Lady Wray - 'Time'
Abby Sundborn - 'Tracings in Mired'
Erika de Casier - 'Miss'
Rose Riebl - 'Skies Have Fallen'
e4444e - 'Crutch'
BARKAA - 'Ngamaka' feat. Leroy Johnson
