Battered Fish – Bent

Battered Fish
Bent
1993 (no label)
Aspley, Queensland, Australia

Caleb – Guitar, voice
Jeremy – Bass guitar
Matt – Drumming

1. My Umbrella
2. Oath of Silence
3. The Source
4. My Shoulder
5. I Don’t Care

This appears to be the first demo by Australian band Battered Fish, who went on to release a few more albums. This included their most well-known and loved Modern in 2000. This is a good seven years before that, so they had to yet really develop their dreamy, moody modern rock sounds of Modern yet. This sound here is kind of what was typical of early 90’s Australian alt-rock, although more serious than many of those bands tended to be. Still some humor, of course. Kind of humble beginnings for what they would go on to become, but still historically interesting.