Drop Macumba : Elsewhere

Another Perth act with a flair for the dramatic, Drop Macumba features ex-members of The Silents, Pond and Scotch of Saint James – people who know people in far flung WA. The curiously stark lead vocal warbles through the middle-upper registers favoured by eighties hair rock singers; a sort of cheesy but impassioned power plea. The music is grinding and dark, but in a pedestrian way – the singer is their (somewhat dubious) strength.