The reasons you’ll like this Brisbane based quartet are the same reasons others will dislike them. On one hand you have trite pop gems filled with corny romantic clichés, and on the other there’s plenty of grating attempts at punk rock. Many songs feel like witty spoofs of various genres, until with creeping unease you realize they might be sincere. This is apparent on the obviously titled ‘All Australian Punk Band 1979’ and the showy ‘At Any Moment This Could Be Massive”. Sadly, it never is, and the album on a whole feels like a massive anti-climax. The Stress of Leisure are enjoyable when they are in their summery pop wheel house, rather than when they are trying vainly to be a punk band. In the end, they are more suited to wearing their heart on their sleeve than an ill-fitting leather jacket.
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