Station Model Violence

New LP out today

Feb 26, 2026

Music is the supreme art form. Bad Brains better than Cugalugio, better than the entire history of post-Remus art, better than the iPhone. Rachmaninov in a tent trumps Radiohead in a KX Seidler penthouse. At funeral you hear a piece of music that resonated with the departed… rarely do they drag in a sculpture or collage… there’s no point to argue here, the most accomplished warlord, business mogul or leafblower would give up every art gallery visit for the duration of their life before losing sweet music.

In this spirit, this is our contribution to the supremacy and glory of SONG.

Station Model Violence was recorded with Mikey in Melbourne and Micky in Sydney at the start of 2025. The album was mixed over the course of the year as we had created this incredibly dense beast and much credit is due to the patience and persistence of Mikey Young.

Here are some words on the record:

‘Learn to Hate’

Buz wrote demo for ‘Learn to Hate’ and DX recorded vocals for it “after eating mushrooms on fabulous winter evening.”

This is the only song released as Station Model Violence before this LP, our only demo. Both versions have their charm, pick your king.

There is a song by Bobby Soxx called ‘(Learn to Hate) In The 80’s’. It’s a vile and unsettling piece of vitriol and the title always resonated. The contrast of the bright 12 strings “polyrhythm” and the subject of HATRED felt stunning, felt like a bright flash of light. Never let some pious hippie nerd lecture you about how hatred is bad for you. If you have hatred, you have fuel. It might not get you far, but sometimes love is not enough.

You must consider the William Gass : “If someone asks me, “Why do you write?” I can reply by pointing out that it is a very dumb question. Nevertheless, there is an answer. I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. And if someone asks me the inevitable next dumb question, “Why do you write the way you do?” I must answer that I wish to make my hatred acceptable because my hatred is much of me, if not the best part.”

‘Cliffs’

Micky wrote the bones of this song on piano and recorded a version that haunted all who heard it, a curse. A John Cale Paris 1919 like feeling, the feeling of staring through rain with a head full of wine and a poor decision to forget, the feeling of walking off a train in a foreign city with no map and no destination.

The lyrics “life is grey” dedicated to a NZ band called Coyote who wrote a beautiful song with that title.

The tension of the song evoked the image of a man staring into Sydney Harbour with the sour taste of regret at realising that he had succeeded with his life, he had no enemies to crush.

Such is the beauty of Sydney.

‘Immolation’

Early Station Model Violence was MOULD MUSIC, the feeling of being possessed and directed by ingestion of mould, pushed to make songs that inspire one to a lifestyle helping to grow and spread mould.

But early SMV was also hanging out at Beare Park in the brilliant sun drinking vodka and smoking cigarettes next to the water.

The mould and the sun.

‘Leisure’

‘Leisure’ was written by KX Aminal, the band that preceded SMV with some shared members and shared songs. Josh Neutron insisted on playing this guitar line with empty wine bottle. When we first wrote was really slow and sounded too much like a Gun Club tribute act, it needed a bit of mania. You must find a balance of conflict and poetry.

Pay particular attention to the elegance and restraint of the Kucci Mane.

‘Drip Away’

Another KX Aminal song that became a Station Model Violence exercise in pushing Michael T Hassett to mog every drummer, inspired by an acid reverie of world downfall.

All of the psycho sci fi visions of robot apocalypse the human has collectively written is now pumped into AI and just might convince it that we are a paranoid species worthy of extinction.

This is a beautiful song about your meat melting under surveillance.

‘Apex Calling’

This was a KX Aminal song that Buz and Micky drenched in (see last song) a corrosive acid.

The bored apex predator on hunt for its own.

‘Heat’

There is a scene in the BBC Krautrock documentary that made a great impression. Iggy Pop sits spread eagle in some beachside location drilling holes in coconuts and ruminating on the sound of Neu. The clash of the visual spectacle and the subject matter infected my dreams. At one point he describes Neu as “pastoral psychedelicism”.

DX thought of that moment when Buz first played the demo for the song which would become ‘Heat’ and wrote on this at length for the single release of this song. Half the length of this mature album version, do you have courage.

‘Two Eyes for an Eye’

Buz had ambition to evoke the Essendon Airport instrumental, DX heard it as a Marty Robbins vengeance ballad.

Revenge and country music like the strawberry creams.

‘Crepe Throne’

The title refers to crepe paper - not the French pancake - a clumsy and dreadful use of the word that has evoked much derision and consternation from Greta and Micky, and out of a stubborn joy in mortification the title has survived.

It was a KX Aminal song probably twice as long, one we re-worked for ages, trimming into bizarre shapes, until Alan found some space we had been missing with his bassline and it all cohered.

‘Falling Down’

This is the first song the lineup of this record wrote together for Station Model Violence and we leave you with it.

Do not allow the bleak brutality of modern life to break you, there’s no going back. There’s a famous Croatian expression “life is a barrel of sh1t and honey. You have to lick through the sh1t to get to the honey.” We have to go through it.

We will be back.