World Sick
Bio
World Sick started making music in 2016 and have been a loud, sad staple of Australia’s heavy music scene ever since.
The band’s first EP, Delayed, was recorded by High Tension guitarist Mike Deslandes and released in late 2017. After a line-up change, and a split with Adelaide band Hot Mess, a series of singles followed, cementing the band’s reputation as writers of unrelenting and abrasive, yet melodic, music. With a sound that veers between shoegaze, Midwest emo, screamo and self- professed sadgaze, World Sick have supported national and international artists, including June of 44, Codeine, Deafcult, Ceres, Emperor X, and Tigers Jaw. Their loud, harsh and anti-social stage presence has won them rave reviews and a tight but passionate cohort of loyal fans: the sort of band your favourite band thinks you should go and see.
World Sick’s most recent release, Timing is Everything, takes the band’s mix of melodic and harsh, twinkly and distorted, to its logical conclusion. Midwest melodies fight to be heard against dissonant guitars and droning feedback, all over the top of a pounding rhythm section that refuses to quite let the chaos take over.
Timing is Everything
Written prior to the world’s longest and strictest lockdowns—before being thrown out and subsequently rewritten—Timing is Everything is World Sick’s first full-length release.
Recorded at Lily Street Studios in February 2024 with producer Simon Maisch (Bitumen, Gil Cerrone), mixed by Electrical Audio’s Greg Norman and mastered by Harris Newman of Grey Market Mastering, the record finds the band at its most melodic as well as its most wild.
From the first notes of album opener ‘Hellhead’, it’s clear that the melodies that shaped the band’s earlier work are present here, but butting up against a louder, more aggressive sound. This heavier sound is reinforced by abrasive guest vocals from Ben Bullivant (Tired Minds, Daisy Chain) on tracks ‘No Body’ and ‘3.6’. The back and forth between melody and chaos persists throughout Timing is Everything—in each of the eight individual tracks as well as the structure of the album itself—until the final moments of closing track ‘3.6’ in which the heavy chaos wins out.
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