The second instalment of Chapter Music’s acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can’t Stop It! is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album. The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007 and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, plus new liner notes, photos and layout. This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for perhaps the first time. Can’t Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia’s post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors’ Mark Seymour. Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane’s This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses’ Fool’s Gold by at least five years, and Tasmania’s own performance punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout. “This era of Australian music wasn’t defined by a sound or an instrument, but by an anarchic creativity” – Stephen Deusner, Uncut Tracklisting: Side A: 1. The Systematics- International Voltage 2. International Exiles – Let’s Be Sophisticated 3. Asphixiation – The Crush 4. Tactics – Watch My Hands 5. Severed Heads – Lamborghini 6. The Goat That Went “OM” – The Pirate Song 7. Use No Hooks – Do the Job Side B: 8. Microfilm – Centrefold 9. Scattered Order – Swiss Like Knives and Forks 10. The Jetsonnes – Newspaper 11. Rhythmx Chymx – The Now Generation 12. Brrr Cold – Mothers At War 13. SoliPsiK- See Saw Side C: 14. Wild Dog Rodeo – Charging the Lighthouse 15. Belle Du Soir – Treasure Island 16. Ya Ya Choral – God’s Buzzsaw 17. Essendon Airport – I Feel A Song Coming On 18. Swell Guys – Sidetracking 19. Scapa Flow – Somewhere 20. Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind Side D 21. Lachelle – Purple Hearts 22. Chainmale – Freakout 23. This Five Minutes – How 24. Chocolate Grinders – People With Leukaemia 25. Tiny Town – Living Out Of Living 26. Aural Indifference – Baby Love
