PRIVATE FUNCTION - 370HSSV 0773H LP

First pressing 'Put It On Black' black vinyl. Limited to 2000 copies.

Cover features three scratch panels, with 2,999 copies of the first pressing featuring bananas in the first two panels, and the last featuring a koala. Anyone whose "album has three (3) bananas" are urged to "contact Private Function directly" as part of the "Private Function's Scratch To Play" promotion.

Insert with lyrics and housed in brown paper bag.

Highly recommended.

"It’s an understatement to say Private Function don’t take themselves too seriously. In fact, the Melbourne six-piece savvily split the difference between Cosmic Psychos-style yobbo punk tropes and more current piss-take party rockers. Their songs play it short and dumb, sporting spontaneous bubblegum choruses that demand you shout along – no matter how dodgy the sentiment.

That’s why they’re able to pull off something like 2017’s ‘I Wish Australia Had Its Guns Again’, or this album’s prankish Coldplay cover. Those moments get a huge reaction live, and they’re a whole lot of fun to burn through on record, too. It helps that P.F songs are usually equal parts compact and explosive: on this third studio album, it takes five tracks for the band to finally crack the two-minute mark. It also helps to have a mouthpiece as animated and versatile as Chris Penney, who can freely jump between singing styles to suit each song’s disparate touchstones.

On ‘370HSSV 0773H’, the title of which spells out a rude greeting upside-down, P.F cherry-pick liberally from the music they grew up loving. ‘Jusavinageez’ applies Dead Kennedys-esque charisma to classic ocker slang, while ‘General Mr. Meaner’ swerves into Cheap Trick-worthy power pop and ‘I Dunno What I’m Doing Anymore’ sees Penney flash an exaggerated growl over guitar riffs that hark back to the earliest days of r’n’r. Most fascinating of all is the robust centrepiece ‘Seize and Destroy’, which channels ’80s metal and hardcore alike alongside a ravaged vocal turn that nods to Motörhead." - NME