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The Electorate are finally back with a follow-up to their magnificent 2020 album 'You Don't Have Time To Stay Lost' (see my review here). 'By Design', out tomorrow, puts on full display what has been missed during the intervening five years since their last album. Masterful songwriting with intelligent lyrics and a pop sensibility combine to deliver a tour de force.

The ever delightful The Electorate return with another tasty single 'The Great Divide' off their forthcoming album 'By Design'. And this time it is a personal look at emotional pain, rather than the political. The pace is reflective with crystalline guitars that jangle with a clarity while the vocals are to the fore with ethereal harmonies. The track ebbs and flows but sparkles through every note, drenched in a certain satisfying melancholia with an antipodean flavour in the delivery and enunciation.

The magnificent The Electorate – a firm favourite here in the dusty hallowed halls of the antipodean headquarters of Backseat Mafia – have followed up their earlier comeback single &#82…

The magnificent The Electorate - a firm favourite here in the dusty hallowed halls of the antipodean headquarters of Backseat Mafia - have followed up their earlier comeback single 'Face of a Giant' (their first release since the brilliant debut 'First' back in 2020) with the statuesque 'Peace, Love & Kindness'. Make no bones about it - the title is a plea to humanity after to a terrible, terrible year, inspired by the criminally embarrassing No vote in the constitutional referendum last year to give the First Nations people in Australia a constitutional voice, as well as world conflicts that will go unnamed.