Given the pedigree of this Australian band — former members of Eddy Current Supression Ring and UV Race, an old split LP with Thee Oh Sees — you might expect Total Control to be unhinged garage-psych boogeymen. Instead, they’ve made an album of beautifully glassy, patient, metronomic postpunk, postpunk of the sort that wasn’t being made during the initial postpunk era. Like Django Django, Total Control find ferocity in their staring-into-infinity motorik beats, but their clean production and sneaky hooks rule the day. Every punk band should use a synth this well. –Tom [LISTEN]