A gain, one of the year’s best indie rock albums, comes courtesy of the Belair Lip Bombs, a Melbourne four-piece who write with a precision and attention to melody that could put hired-gun pop songwriters to shame. Their second album, following their 2023 debut Lush Life, Again looks set to establish the Lip Bombs – guitarist and vocalist Maisie Everett, bass player Jimmy Droughton, drummer Daniel Devlin and guitarist Mike Bradvica – as rising stars in Australia and far beyond. It’s the band’s first album for Jack White’s Third Man Records – Lush Life, released by the Frankston label Cousin Will, was reissued by Third Man last year – and the band are appreciative of this new, larger platform.

“It’s cool being part of a record release where people are going to hear it, whereas I think w

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