Powderfinger
Golden Rule
Universal

Powderfinger return to their best with this, the band’s seventh studio album.

For band purists, Golden Rule, is a kind reminder of the band’s earlier work of Double Allergic and Internationalist, with its soft-rock styles muddled with untamed, beastly guitars.

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Though take note, the album is merely a reminder of the “good old days”, not a replication. Golden Rule easily stands on its own.

Front man Bernard Fanning has not lost his touch, still able to lull us back under his spell for yet another sublime sonic journey.

Despite a four year absence between the band’s 2003 release, Vulture St, and 2007’s Dream Days at the Hotel Existence, things appear to be back on track.

It is only hoped the rumours Golden Rule is the band’s last album together are untrue.

Three stars

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