It's strange, the things a man will hear in his own heartbeat when the mad, bad world of expectation and compromise is safely locked outside.
Listen. The Beautiful Girls have been a long time underground. OK, there was one tour of Brazil, the odd show here and there. But since Mat McHugh wound up touring his solo album, Seperatista!, in March 2009, he's been a virtual recluse, digging deep for new sound and meaning downstairs in his home studio on Sydney's northern beaches.
What he found surprised and thrilled him.
"The weird...
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