The offbeat New King Jack must have stood out like a sore thumb amongst Sydney's inner-city post-punk scene in 1980. I guess at its heart this tune is pop, sixties and folk influenced with hints of retroactively named 60s micro-genres like baroque psych and sunshine pop and eventually it becomes undeniably psych when that sideways guitar enters and almost tips the song over. Anyway what's a delightfully enchanting number to me might not be for your you. Peculiar.
Man, that's one off-kilter guitar break. I wonder if the Go-Betweens had heard this band?
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