Talkshow Boy (AKA Adrian Trajstman, b.1985, Aquarius, devastatingly attractive) is Australia’s most successful hard pop star because he does everything on his own terms. Often his productions are OVERCOMPRESSED and TREBLE-HEAVY with a strong emphasis on MAJORCHORDAL movements and fluid beatcraft. Lyrically, the songs are all HEART – passionate/terrifying phrases, cheesy BIG-UPS and NEO-DADA SLOGANEERING. Talkshow Boy raises the roof at house parties, warehouses, pubs, galleries and extreme fashion shows – his performances are SLAMMIN’ FLUX and y’all are invited to participate in these wild break-pop events.

With cover artwork recalling Henry Fuseli’s “The Nightmare”, Best Beast Ever is Talkshow Boy’s (fourth) hard-hitting concept album – a beefed-up opus concerned with themes of self-improvement, stress relief, personal bests and voodoo. Over the course of the album’s half-hour, Trajstman plays the role of incubus incredible wrangling clusters of drowning beats and 17 kHz tones, a fool on a lifelong journey spitting triple-tracked abstractions in an effort to evolve from Bad Beast to Better Beast to Best Beast Ever. Familiar ‘classics’ are redefined as goofy rave-ups on this landmark avant-pop release. Tropical cache-hop, fruity goth breaks and approximated ‘commercial’ poptones are favoured over MOR-electropop and samey roboshit. Flick that fader on your console, selecta – spoil yourself.