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Moving from guttural screams and brutal guitar riffs to jazz-inflected math rock time signatures in the blink of an eye, Australian punk/hardcore/metal outfit Totally Unicorn made a name for themselves with their uncompromising live shows and fierce sound

High Spirits//Low Life is born into a world diminished by lockdowns and distancing, which makes its relatability all the more vital. At its most poignant it’s a primal scream of frustration. But bring those emotional wounds to the always-celebratory live shows and they’ll be bandaged in tinsel and streamers. 

A purge is generally followed by a binge. That’s why the third album from Sydney’s Totally Unicorn is a gluttonous feast of black humour, animalistic energy and the promise of glitter-bomb good times. 

No such silver spoon ever fed the mouths of Totally Unicorn. Since forming in Wollongong in 2010, they’ve shared trenches with Cancer Bats, Dillinger Escape Plan and Frenzal Rhomb, and toured Japan; always evolving. First, there was the chaotic mathcore of their 2016 debut, Dream Life; and then, the relatively subdued Sorry with its pared-back arrangements and unfathomable tunings. But teaming up with producer Lachlan Mitchell (The Hard-Ons, The Jezabels) at Parliament Studios in Leichardt, they’ve concocted something a whole lot more textured and considered

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