Melbourne quartet The Smith Street Band might be punk rockers, but singer Wil Wagner is a poet. Taken from their 2012 album Sunshine & Technology, Young Drunk is a vivid, bitterly romantic and nostalgic ode to that bright and brilliant moment between youth and old age, when your ill-fitting suburban teens are receding in the glow of a shitty, funny, chaotic and not-quite-adult share house existence. His lyrics are full of piss and joy, and pictures so clear they seem painted on the air in front of you. Good stuff.
The Smith Street Band : Young Drunk
