Free Range sounds, sunny side up. The second instalment of our new Thursday night sound club.

Francis Plagne Once described as a guitarist with a museum in his head, Francis Plagne’s sound world is indeed a Wunderkammer of Canterbury styling, musique concréte curios, and notes collected from Italian library music. His extraordinary run of recent albums will become the stuff of legend. Joined at the IMA on bass by fellow Naarm-based curiosity collector Alex Macfarlane, expect a set of delicate song craft from two of the finest. Coddled with parsley garnish.

Pious Faults After blazing a trail of hardcore decimation across the United States in 2018, Meanjin’s Pious Faults arrived in Europe a few months later already ingesting prog-rock cookies and befuddling continental punks. A leaked copy of their much-awaited second album now finds them sounding like Scott Walker in cahoots with Ligetti. An expanded line up at the IMA sees local string-bender Kahl Monticone join the fray with the ubiquitous Alex Macfarlane also along for the ride. Fried.