CAMP COPE How To Socialise And Make Friends (Poison City) If anger fuels a good portion of Camp Cope’s songs it has to share that space with the fervour of the wholly involved, the black humour of the prematurely world weary (“I’m sorry about that line/I only wrote it cause it rhymed”) and the energy of the as yet unbowed. What isn’t in play here, despite the sound and often enough the tempo of Camp Cope fitting the derogatory misnomer of slacker (rock), is the ennui of the d

An album forged from grief by an internationally renowned songwriter, a record made for $1000 by self-described “scummy little punks”, and a sonically complex hip-hop album more than 15 years in the making will compete for this year’s prestigious Australian Music Prize. The Shortlist for the 12th AMP, whose prize of $30,000 makes it the country’s richest cash reward for an album, features nine acts almost as diverse as the Australian music industry. The best known of the cont