The Perimeter Motor Show

"City City City's new album 'The Perimeter Motor Show' is a heady mix of genres, from '70s spy movie soundtracks to kraut rock beats Slint-like guitars and occasional electronics.”
- Cyclic Defrost magazine

'The Perimeter Motor Show' is the second album from Melbourne 7-piece City City City, a group who multifarious side projects account for some of the most progressive music in Australia. This ambitious and engaging offering forges a path somewhere between the music of '60s film scores, post punk, free jazz, kraut rock and chanson pop.

The first single "The Perimeter Motor Show" introduces the vocal duet of Naomi Jean along with founding guitarist Ned Collette, presenting a new focus and direction for the band, whose previous work was entirely instrumental. Indeed, the whole album represents some of City City City's most ambitious arrangements so far. Self-producing entirely within their own studio allowed the duo Joe Talia and Ned Collette to move with their musical influences without the ticking of a studio clock.

Evidence of this freedom can be seen within the tracks "Skim", "Good Thanks" and "The 4am Cavalry", wherein the arrangements take my an unexpected twist and turn, resulting in an almost suite-like vastness.

"There is something utterly familiar yet stubbornly indefinable about their sounds, where their intention seems to have little to do with aping particular genres or approaches and more to do with some pure form of musical expression… just when you think you have them pegged, they surprise you.”
- Inpress magazine

"They build in momentum to flip from jazzy groove into a breakneck rockout in a transition which has enough intensity to magnetise some of us out of our languid darkness and towards the light like moths.”
- Live review in Express magazine