taking a further, and slightly larger, sidestep from yesterday’s post… given that its hottest 100 time, it seems appropriate to come out of the closet and announce my love of custard, a defunct quirky pop-rock band who i’m not sure if it was ever really that cool to be into. actually i never really was into custard, until i got their greatest hits on a whim last year and realised that the band had like a million great songs and that i actually knew them all. custard are a band that suffered from triple j overkill, but hey it turns out they were alright by me. i used to think they sounded like pavement before i knew what pavement sounded like, and now for some reason i associate custard with mental as anything. similar quirkiness? similar career trajectory? i don’t really know. but its fun stuff, particularly if you were a teenager listening to triple j in the mid-late 1990s - grab the greatest hits comps of custard, regurgitator and spiderbait and you’ve got yourself some instant nostalgia. which makes me think, regurgitator and spiderbait are still kicking, but not custard?

i picked this song because it more or less turned out to be custard’s swan song, and sounds like it too. last year i went on a camping trip up the east coast of nsw, and my mp3 player for some reason would only play custard’s greatest hits; this song now evokes fond memories of that trip as well as the aforementioned late-90s nostalgia.

Custard - The New Mathew (4.31MB)