Pre-Order: Various Artists - Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 (2026 Deluxe Edition)

Deluxe double LP. Release date is September 4

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The second instalment of Chapter Music’s acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can’t Stop It! is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album.

The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout.
This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for perhaps the first time.
Can’t Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors’ Mark Seymour.
Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold by at least five years, and Tasmania's own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout.

"This era of Australian music wasn't defined by a sound or an instrument, but by an anarchic creativity" — Stephen Deusner, Uncut

Tracklisting:

Side A:

1. The Moodists – Gone Dead
2. Voigt/465 – Voices A Drama
3. The Take – Summer
4. Essendon Airport – How Low Can You Go...?
5. The Apartments – Help
6. Ash Wednesday – Love By Numbers
7. Primitive Calculators – Pumping Ugly Muscle

Side B:

8. The Makers Of the Dead Travel Fast – The Dumbwaiters
9. Ron Rude – Piano Piano
10. Xero – The Girls
11. The Limp – Pony Club
12. The Fabulous Marquises – Honeymoons
13. Slugfuckers – Cacophony

Side C:

14. Equal Local – Lamp That
15. Tame O’Mearas – Sweat and Babble
16. The Particles – Apricot’s Dream
17. People With Chairs Up Their Noses – Song Of the Sea
18. Wild West – We Can Do
19. The Pits – Words
20. → ↑ → – One Note Song

Side D

21. *****,***** – Knots
22. Electric Fans – Garden Of Uluru
23. The Voice Of Drama – A Song of Colours
24. Synthetic Dream – Work
25. Yclept Dinmakers – Yclept Enemy
26. The Plants – The Path