Per Purpose

LABEL: Bedroom Suck Records

PER PURPOSE are a three-piece rock band from Brisbane, Australia, born as a side-project of members from Brisbane favourites KITCHEN’S FLOOR, LOOMER and SLUG GUTS.

The band have since taken on a life of their own, releasing their first EP Heil Progress to much acclaim and playing dates Australia-wide. PER PURPOSE have been greatly influenced by their surroundings, and their music has a distinctly Australian feel. Indeed, the band have been compared to their hometown ancestors The Go-Betweens, but only if you listen to The Go-Betweens at double speed!

(Per Purpose) take a page from the Minutemen's ‘jam econo' philosophy. Brevity is favoured, and normal song structure is ignored or contorted so that every worthwhile idea can be crammed in to fit. Like that influential trio, this one shifts gears every few seconds, but tends to keep grooving/convulsing along in one malformed way or another. It sounds like chaotic, agitated energy being forced through a conduit of brittle ‘n' wiry punk-funk. 

Lee Parker, Five Thousand

Brisbane’s Per Purpose have made a very worthy 7" EP of Minutemen and bIG fLAME influenced rock here. The pace is hectic, there are a ton of stops and starts in these short songs, the vocals have a Mark E. Smith-ish sneer, and every once in awhile someone lets lose with what sounds like a tin whistle. It’s really great stuff.
Chris Strunk, Still Single

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