All News Is Good News

There is something simultaneously both brand-new and retro about 'All News Is Good News' - the debut album from Melbourne's instrumental soul group Surprise

Chef. It sounds like something dreamt up by lo-fi cousins of David Axelrod and Janko Nilovic, with dramatic Library-music-eqsue cinematic arrangements echoing

both light and dark, delving into moments of dissonance and positivity. There is a meticulous education of 1970's soul on display that touches on the

legacies of the great composer / producers, yet at the same time this is a truly contemporary record that could have only been made now.