Dogtooth (Baby Blue Vinyl)

Sydney trio Sweetie carve feral, gothic post-punk into something sharp, political and impossible to look away from on their debut album Dogtooth, due for release on 25 September via Blossom Rot Records.

Recorded with Australian producer heavyweight Anna Laverty (Courtney Barnett, Folk Bitch Trio, Peep Tempel), mixed by Wade Keighran and mastered by George Nicholas, Dogtooth captures the raw nerve of what it feels like to inhabit a body politicised by default.

Post-punk unease, gothic country melancholy, and snarling rock sensibilities form the record’s backbone, but it’s the band’s instinct for storytelling that gives it bite. Across 11 tracks, the trio draw on gothic Australian narratives, mythic archetypes and the slow rot of late capitalism to craft a visceral portrait of what it means to be a woman in contemporary Australia.