[PREORDER] Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82

Chapter Music's landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s postpunk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release!

Can’t Stop It! documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time.

Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go Betweens, Can’t Stop It! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s fairly unadventurous music culture of the time.

All of the bands on Can't Stop It! released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records.

On its original release in 2001, the compilation got Chapter Music its first major international attention, written up in The Wire magazine, stocked at Other Music in New York and selling out numerous CD pressings.

Remastered with updated liner notes and photos, this deluxe 2LP set expands on the original 20 track CD with six bonus never before-reissued tracks.

"A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere's stranglehold on post-punk nostalgia" - The Wire

Tracklist:

A1 The Moodists – Gone Dead
A2 Voigt/465 – Voices A Drama 
A3 The Take – Summer 
A4 Essendon Airport – How Low Can You Go…?
A5 The Apartments – Help
A6 Ash Wednesday – Love By Numbers
A7 Primitive Calculators – Pumping Ugly Muscle

B1 The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast – The Dumbwaiters
B2 Ron Rude – Piano Piano
B3 Xero – The Girls
B4 The Limp – Pony Club
B5 The Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons
B6 Slugfuckers – Cacophony

C1 Equal Local – Lamp That
C2 Tame O’Mearas – Sweat and Babble
C3 The Particles – Apricot’s Dream
C4 People With Chairs Up Their Noses – Song Of The Sea
C5 Wild West – We Can Do
C6 The Pits – Words
C7 → ↑ → – One Note Song

D1 *****,***** – Knots
D2 Electric Fans – Garden Of Uluru
D3 The Voice Of Drama – A Song of Colours
D4 Synthetic Dream – Work
D5 Yclept Dinmakers – Yclept Enemy
D6 The Plants – The Path