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Powderfinger’s new album is a rewarding peek into the past – The Guardian
Unreleased may be compilation of rejects and relics but it includes one of the Brisbane band’s strongest songs – and clues about why they called it quits
Albums of Odds & Sods (the name the Who gave to one of the first compilations of rarities, released in 1974 in an attempt to short-circuit bootleggers) are often more interesting than best-of collections.
While the latter are usually predictable roundups for casual fans of an artist, albums of outtakes, B-sides and strays are for the diehards. Done right, they are a glimpse into a parallel career, the songwriting process and what might have been.
Powderfinger were a democratic band with five headstrong…
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