Totally Mild: Down Time review – empowered bedroom sulk music

The overlooked gem from the Melbourne band, filled with doomed teen romance and surf guitars, is about as good as it gets. Just don’t call it dolewave The salacious cover image, when taken in conjunction with the band’s name (a 1970s slogan for Rothmans cigarettes perhaps), might suggest slinky nightclub music somewhere near the twin sister swoon of Swedish-Australian duo Say Lou Lou. Wrong. Dreamy this music may well be (somnambulist, even) but it has little to do with euphoria and artifici