Can't Stop It! Australian Post-Punk 1978-82 - Various Artists (2025 Deluxe Edition)

The first ever vinyl reissue of this key Australian post-punk compilation, now including six bonus tracks of never before reissued songs from the era. Features future members of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go-Betweens. Chapter Music's landmark collection of Australian 70s-80s post- punk, originally released in 2001, gets its first ever vinyl release! 'Can’t Stop It!' documents a fantastically inventive and dynamic era, when Australian acts stepped out of the shadow of overseas influence and asserted their own musical identity for perhaps the first time. Featuring tracks by future members of bands such as Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Einsturzende Neubauten, Dirty Three and The Go- Betweens, 'Can’t Stop It!'! is a vivid survey of the creativity and innovation bubbling away under the surface of Australia’s fairly unadventurous music culture of the time. All of the bands on 'Can’t Stop It!' released their music independently, either themselves or through the handful of visionary labels of the era such as Au-Go-Go, M Squared, Missing Link or Innocent Records. "A bracing corrective to the Northern Hemisphere's stranglehold on post-punk nostalgia" - The Wire