Full Ugly - Spent The Afternoon [CD]

Full Ugly is primarily a vehicle for the song writing of Melbourne native, Nathan Burgess. With the line-up now rounded out to a four-piece, affording Burgess's almost nave country-rock sensibility a more exploratory feel. The album was recorded and mixed by Jack Farley (Twerps, Panel of Judges, Beaches) whose naturalistic approach suited the band well and the album was finished quickly and with little fuss. It is a product completely of and for Melbourne; those trademark sunlit guitars shine over a slow and comfortable groove, life is documented in a way that allows true insight into the flourishing music scene in which Full Ugly now find themselves at the fore. It is a disarming record, sincere and shabbily endearing. Melodies lope along toward a greater destination, a summer breeze runs through the studio and is captured in the rhythm of these songs.