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The Perimeter Motor Show is the second full length release from Melbourne seven piece City City City.

Since 2001, City City City have forged a musical path extending from minimalist noise to psych-kraut rockouts. The band involves seven musicians whose multifarious side projects account for some of the most progressive music in Australia

This latest offering exists somewhere between the music of 60’s film scores, post-punk, free jazz, kraut rock and chanson pop.

The first single “The Perimeter Motor Show” introduces the vocal duet of Naomi Jean along with founding guitarist Ned Collette, presenting a new focus and direction for the band, whose previous work was entirely instrumental.

An album one year in the making, The Perimeter Motor Show represents some of City City City’s most ambitious arrangements so far. Self producing entirely within their own studio allowed the duo of Joe Talia and Ned Collette the room to move and play with their musical influences without the ticking clock of studio time. Evidence of this freedom can be seen within the tracks “Skim”, “Good Thanks” and “The 4am Cavalry” wherein the arrangements take many an unexpected twist and turn, resulting in an almost suite-like vastness.

In 2003, City City City recorded and released their debut LP, Dawn and the Blue Light District, also distributed nationally by Inertia. This first release received rave reviews in press around the country and led to a heavy schedule of local and national shows for the band, including gigs with Augie March, Dappled Cities Fly, bucketrider and redsunband.

“There is something utterly familiar yet stubbornly indefinable about their sounds, where their intention seems to have little to do with aping particular genres or approaches and more to do with some pure form of musical expression… just when you think you have them pegged, they surprise you.” Inpress Magazine

It’s a heady mix of genres, from ’70s spy-movie-soundtracks to krautrock beats, Slint-like guitars and occasional electronics. Cyclic Defrost Magazine.

“They build in momentum to flip from jazzy groove into a breakneck rockout in a transition which has enough intensity to magnetise some of us out of our languid darkness and toward the light like moths.” Live review in Inpress Magazine.