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The best band in world with their follow up to the brilliant no titled first EP have made a brilliant brilliant set of six songs on this very good recording. Who would have thought that the only good band in aust was the best in the world. Typical i guess...check out Tu-Plang Unit, and their first EP( not listed at Amazon.com)

The bands 2nd E.P "New" which comes after the self titled (also known as the Burger E.P). While the first E.P set a small buzz around the Australian underground alternative rock scene, this one saw the gurge start to surge (lol) into popularity. "Track 1" starts off with a mexican sounding riff and drum roll then kicks into a grunge rock/rap verse which then kicks back into a grunge punk chorus which works brilliantly and back again until the song peaks with Quan (singer/guitarist) screaming the chorus over and over again, great stuff and all time gurge classic. Then, "Power Tool" can only be described as power sludge metal which lasts barely 2 mins, but every second is worth it!. The 3rd track "Blubber Boy" a great pop rock song, is probably the most well known song from this E.P, and still sounds as original and exiting as the day i first heard it back in late 1995. The band continue it's diverse mini journey with the funk rock track "Gravy", this track sounds better to me than it did 15 years ago. Then "7'10" is a long genre jumping track that sounds like it could of been on the bands first e.p, blazing guitars, spoken word rap, metal crossover, with a mellow Floyd like jam bit towards the end. Looking back it's easy to see why the band had a huge buzz around them (in Australia anyhow) at this time. 5/5

Regurgitator's second EP represented something of a retreat from the highly processed metal-punk sound of their debut. Here they turn up the fuzz and give us some standard alterna-pop (Blubber Boy), grungy thrashing (Power Tool), and spiky funk (Track 1), among others. Quan's lyrics are more sarcastic and pointed, with rants about deadbeat slackers, macho idiots, even a sexually explicit love song. Each song fits in a new genre, and 6 songs and twenty minutes later, the general impression is that Regurgitator can do anything.

At a time when Australian music was getting stagnant along came the Gurge with their 2nd ep "NEW", It was different, heavy but poppy, crude but likable, where else will would you hear the classic Blubber Boy, then a rap metal hybrid about having intercourse with men... At the time it was fresh and different, then the band went all commercial and disappeared...

Take a listen to Grinspoon, Jebediah, Spiderbait, The Living End, Tism, The Fauves, Pollyanna etc, and you'll see that there's much more to Australian music than you think. Just because you haven't heard of a lot of these bands doesn't mean they're no good. They just don't get any of the popularity, whereas worse bands like silverchair and savage garden and natalie imbruglia get all the publicity in the US. Okay, now that i've mentioned that, "New" is a pretty good EP for a band that was (then) new...rather short though....and Regurgitator are getting better all the time.

I've had this EP for a while and realy dig the whole EP. Stand out track has to be Blubber boy, there from Australia and recently played the Reading festival (in the UK). This EP sounds like a cross between Jesus Jones meats Soundgarden!!

"New" is a fantastic EP from electronic/alternative group, `Regurgitator'. "Blubber Boy" is a excellent electronic song. This is a fantastic alternative, rock and electronic EP. Four stars.