Two of modern Melbournes finest, paired together on one split LP! Parsnips technicolor mod-pop has a wide-eyed wonder similar to the Television Personalities and their Whaam! Records cohort, delivered in a freewheeling rush of warbling organ and sugar-spun harmonies. On Counterfeit and Dailybreader, they draw equal inspiration from 60s sunshine psychedelia and the smudged shambolic jangle of the C86 movement, before capping off their side of the record with a tambourine-bashed, Girls in the Garage-styled hipshaker called Hip Blister thats as wildly raucous as anything that the Pandoras or Thee Headcoatees ever put to tape.

On the flip, the Shifters offer up three brilliant tracks of their own, skirting the shaky line between wiry post-punk repetition and off-kilter pop scrawl. Comparisons to the early work of the Fall have been a little inevitablethe cryptically sardonic lyrical narratives, the rhythmic tunnel vision, the scratchy sparseness and occasional lackadaisical twang, all constantly on the verge of collapsebut despite those psychic parallels, the Shifters are never engaging in some sort of tired historical reenactment. The paranoid and tightly-wound slowburner Conscript is the closest that the group get to Mark E. territory here, while Photo Op touches on raw, ramshackle garage stomp in the Back From the Grave tradition, and Righteous Harmonious Fists hits twin inspirations of no-fidelity UK DIY messthetics and the skewed pop experiments of Flying Nuns more eccentric 1980s wing. Two really strong sides that make for an all-around killer LPif youve yet to have had a chance to fall for the charms of Parsnip and the Shifters on their own, now is the time.