- There was a time when Darren Hanlon was a mainstream figure in Australian music. In the mid 2000’s, his songs full of puns and wry observations were regularly on high rotation on triple J and played from the stages of large venues and festivals.

That really seems like another era now – a time when pop culture seemed a bit more self-aware and less serious; and when white men with guitars (even novel parlour guitars like Darren’s) dominated Australian music.

<p><span><span>- Drug Church<strong> </strong>have added another perspective to their mordant world view. The band's well-trodden, abstract, scumbag soliloquies are slowly being eroded. In place of the low-life-lustre, we’re now starting to see less narrative allusions and more pertinent questions to mull over thanks to a more earnest level of pondering and reflection. </span></span></p>