Name: Lithium Zion
Brand: Deaf Wish

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

spcd1246

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Colour

Colour details

Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Gatefold digipak with custom dust sleeve.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-07-27

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

098787124620

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

sp1246

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Black Vinyl. Single-pocket jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

098787124613

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

sp1246x

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Extended format: Yes

Limited Loser Pink Coloured Vinyl. Single-pocket jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

4059251255185

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1 / Extended format: Yes / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Deaf Wish

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Sub Pop

Lithium Zion is their fifth full-length album (and second for Sub Pop following 2015’s Pain), and, while it’s a rare case that a group’s fifth album is their best, it may in fact be Deaf Wish’s finest. Their previous albums were recorded in makeshift studios - a wise choice for capturing the hazardous riffing, chemically-stained vocals and fiery rhythms conjured by a group such as this - but this step toward a slightly more professional sound only enhances their power. The record opens with Easy, a languid rocker in the rich Australian tradition of groups like X and The Scientists. From there it’s onto FFS, a moody downhill rocker sung by guitarist Sarah Hardiman that confirms Deaf Wish’s relation to fellow Sub Pop employees like feedtime and Hot Snakes. The Rat Is Back is tense and epic; Hitachi Jackhammer pays a brief and noisy tribute to Hitachi’s second most notable device (you’d be forgiven for assuming this song is about vibrators). Lithium Zion is a veritable buffet of garage-punk energy, post-punk pathos, sardonic wit and the fearlessness that comes with Aussie rock, a natural consequence for anyone living on a continent teeming with grapefruit-sized spiders and man-eating mosquito swarms. As has always been the case, the whole group shares vocal duties, even drummer Daniel Twomey (you know the band is slightly unhinged if they’re letting the drummer sing). Hardiman and Tjhung are as ragged and hairy as ever, chugging along as though krautrock was trying to speed past the late ‘70s but got caught in the sticky grasp of punk. Such is the way of Deaf Wish, a group destined to write songs that are simultaneously stupid and sublime, vulnerable and ferocious, and play them with the unbridled intensity they demand. Anyone serving a life sentence to rock will surely concur.

CD - Gatefold digipak with custom dust sleeve.

LP - Black Vinyl. Single-pocket jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.

LP+ - Limited Loser Pink Coloured Vinyl. Single-pocket jacket with custom dust sleeve and Download.