Because you don’t want to work no more.

Four songs for you to wrap your ear meat around. This bunch of relatively new rock tunes is particularly effective if you’ve had a dreadful day.

Torche- Annihilation Affair (Restarter is out now )

You need to be ready  to listen to Torche. There’s no half arsing this music. It’s all or nothing as these drawn out, drudging riffs drag you in like a strong strain of weed that confines you to couch unable to move when you had full intention of going out. It’s a nice high though. Very powerful, very potent.

Flour – Silver Spoon (Feral Sow 7″ out now on Buttercup Records)

The 90s alt rock vibes have been jam squished into Flour’s Silver Spoon like a ciggie butt into an overflowing ashtray. There’s bits of the Hard-Ons and Sunnyboys in there and you can smell the stale Melbourne Bitter, trodden into mank, musty carpet eminating from the new video. It’s still very early days for this Melbourne-based four-piece but we’re very curious to see what happens next.

War On Women- Glass City (War On Women out now via Bridge Nine)

Hailing from the Baltimore punk scene, War On Women unsurprisingly emerged from the ashes of a Bikini Kill cover band. When seeking bandmates for their new project their vibe was pretty much thus: ‘Who is willing to be in a band, where Shawna’s yelling about abortion rights? If that’s cool with you, let’s do this.’” Their debut self-titled album War On Women dropped earlier this year. It is magnificent.

Red City Radio – Two Out Of Three Ain’t Rad (album out now via Cooking Vinyl AU)

They dropped the incredibly simple, yet ultimately unforgettable Two Notes Shy Of An Octive on us several years ago and we haven’t been able to forget about Red City Radio since. This is melodic punk (they’re currently on tour with Strung Out) from Oklahoma and it’s verbose, hooky and very, very rad.