Dormant since 2004, Sydney’s City Lights have finally recorded their second album. Without People… is a smash of an opening single, fuelled by all the mess and noise of early punk, with breathing space in between each verse that let’s you know they’re thinking hard. The lyrics are a chain of easy-rhyming political slogans, “I believe in democracy, don’t want no monarchy, bring back humanity.” (Maybe they’re not thinking so hard about the lyrics.)
Recommended
There's a secret immersive light and soundscape coming to Melbourne for one night only
This July, catch beatbox battles, indie janglers and metal madness at the Bergy
Memo Music Hall is alive with legendary tributes and full-on eighties energy this July
Drum Theatre's next season is one of Melbourne's best kept secrets — and it's unfolding in Dandenong
Beatbox, bluegrass and cabaret: everything inside the Festival of Voices 2026 program