- Every band has influences, some are just more obscure than others; Empat Lima I’m looking at you. The Melbourne trio have a DIY post-punk sound that you can trace back to the all-over-the-place, but life-affirmingly warm and tuneful stylings of The Raincoats. Another big chunk of what they do comes from South East Asia’s fascination with ‘60’s girl groups, so a bit like that nostalgic garage pop that made Cambodian Space Project a lot of fun, a few years back. However, in the three years since their last EP, Satu BOOM!

- Wimps have occupied one of my favourite spaces in punk: one where any pretension or holier-than-thou mentality is left on a coat rack outside and on the inside hilarious and oddball songs replace a constant onslaught of politics. I’m not saying that sort of thing isn't warranted, lord knows, but songs that find the funny side of the most mundane or kooky stuff a band wants to conjure up can be the most refreshing anditote to all of life's seriousness.