Various Artists Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 Vinyl LP Due Out 04/09/26
Various Artists - Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84
Please note this is a pre-order item due for release 4th September 2026
Tracklist:
1. International Voltage - The Systematics
2. Let's Be Sophisticated - International Exiles
3. The Crush - Asphixiation
4. Watch My Hands - Tactics
5. Lamborghini - Severed Heads
6. The Pirate Song - The Goat That Went 'OM'
7. Do the Job - Use No Hooks
8. Centrefold - Microfilm
9. Swiss Like Knives and Forks - Scattered Order
10. Newspaper - The Jetsonnes
11. The Now Generation - Rhythmx Chymx
12. Mothers at War - Brrr Cold
13. See Saw - Solipsik
14. Charging the Lighthouse - Wild Dog Rodeo
15. Treasure Island - Belle Du Soir
16. God's Buzzsaw - Ya Ya Choral
17. I Feel a Song Coming On - Essendon Airport
18. Sidetracking - The Swell Guys
19. Somewhere (Feat. Anneke Van Giersbergen) - Scapa Flow
20. Never Mind - Nuvo Bloc
21. Purple Hearts - Lachelle
22. Freakout - Chainmale
23. How - This Five Minutes
24. People With Leukaemia - Chocolate Grinders
25. Living Out of Living - Tiny Town
26. Baby Love - Aural Indifference
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