Blue Mt Lumber Returns With Single 'St Lukes Freakout Tuesday 3pm'

Living in Tāmaki Makaurau, I can tell you I'm absolutely fiending for a mall adventure right now, if only to break up the housebound monotony of Alert Level 3. Helpfully Blue Mt Lumber aka Matthew McAuley (former Brains frontman and member of Emily Edrosa's band) is here to remind us that the mall can totally suck with new single 'St Lukes Freakout 3pm Tuesday', the Avondale-based artist's first solo release in nine years. A hip-swivelling jam melding the no-wave / punk funk energy of ESG, Pylon or even The Rapture with contemporary Kmart vibrations, 'St Lukes Freakout Tuesday 3pm' keeps it snappy, detailing assorted bad buzz tales from suburban Aotearoa in under three minutes. Word on the street is EP number two 87 Give Up will be out soon, the long-awaited follow up to Blue Mt Lumber's 2012 debut collection all of this was trees — listen here...