Pretty sure this is talking about the dark side of Sydney... in a very clever, visual way.
I especially love the last stanza, particularly the last two lines -
"Where little old ladies die afraid and alone
Now surrounded by yuppies small bars and coke"
Just shows how much the city has changed. It all appears so beautiful and shiny on the outside, but look a little closer, and you'll find crime and misfortune and the city isn't so 'pretty' anymore.
A reviewer on Faster Louder wrote this:
"The six minutes of ‘Adults Only’ return to the unpleasant truths of Australian society, rewriting John Birmingham’s history of Sydney’s consumptive reinvention, 'Leviathan', to provide a subject that can accommodate Hamilton’s snarl. He takes in the Rum Rebellion and “schizophrenic tourists shot by cops”, before culminating in old lonely old ladies expiring in old apartment buildings while the yuppies in nearby bars snort coke."
Read more at fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/33697/The-Presets--Pacifica
Powerful song. Surprised nobody has commented!
Pretty sure this is talking about the dark side of Sydney... in a very clever, visual way. I especially love the last stanza, particularly the last two lines - "Where little old ladies die afraid and alone Now surrounded by yuppies small bars and coke"
Just shows how much the city has changed. It all appears so beautiful and shiny on the outside, but look a little closer, and you'll find crime and misfortune and the city isn't so 'pretty' anymore.
A reviewer on Faster Louder wrote this: "The six minutes of ‘Adults Only’ return to the unpleasant truths of Australian society, rewriting John Birmingham’s history of Sydney’s consumptive reinvention, 'Leviathan', to provide a subject that can accommodate Hamilton’s snarl. He takes in the Rum Rebellion and “schizophrenic tourists shot by cops”, before culminating in old lonely old ladies expiring in old apartment buildings while the yuppies in nearby bars snort coke." Read more at fasterlouder.com.au/reviews/music/33697/The-Presets--Pacifica