As if they had been doing nothing else for decades, Johnny Hunter delivered some equally obvious and unofficial instant classics of contemporary post-punk with singles such as “1995” (2018) and “Pain & Joy” (2019) at the end of the last decade. Just like that. And anyone who listens carefully to the quartet from Sydney quickly understands why: On the one hand, singer Nick Hutt’s lustfully sonorous vocals are unmistakably different in a trendy milieu that likes to shoot voices through umpteen effect devices in order to serve easily digestible sounds to streaming crowds. On the other hand, the riff section between guitarist Xander Burgess and bass bard Nick Cerone in collaboration with drummer Gerry Thompson yields one killer groove after another, including melodic euphoria for the screen. Since the release of their debut album, “Want” (2022), Johnny Hunter have rightly become an exceptional phenomenon in the pulsating Australian music scene. They are a phenomenon that is reminiscent of rock legends from the eighties but that sounds absolutely modern and contemporary at the same time. And with their latest single, “Frustration”, they have proven this once again. To put in simply: They are potentially historic.