It’s a rare blessing for a band to withstand the rigours of the struggling artist to stay together for as long as The Panics. They’ve been a band for near a decade; their five-strong all-male line-up unchanged since their days in a hilly suburb on the outskirts of Perth. With the cityscape on one side and sweeping bushland to the other, it would be hard to shake the impact of such a backdrop in one’s formative years, and there’s a core part of that identity that remains with them through four albums and as many EPs.
As the winners of an ARIA for ‘Best Adult Contemporary Album’ in 2007 for Cruel Guards, The Panics have performed with the Western Australian Symphony Orchestra and have had songs featured on Ugly Betty and Underbelly, while still enjoying decent rotation on local independent radio (where a band like Eskimo Joe, for example, might not). As for Rain on the Humming Wire, the album title alone calls to mind the lonely, sparse stretches of this Antipodean landscape. Breaking away from the divisive grandiloquence of the orchestral additions of Cruel Guards, The Panics have returned to the fragile, sparse songwriting that made them a local staple, but not before lead single ‘Majesty’ draws on the cinematic pomp of their 2007 hit ‘Don’t Fight It’.
Tracklist
1. Majesty
2. Endless Road
3. Low On Your Supply
4. Creatures
5. One Way Street
6. Not Quite A Home
7. Walk That Mile Alone
8. Move On
9. Shot Down
10. How Long
11. Everything Is Quiet
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