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The Triffids: In the Pines

By Adam Bunch

Largely forgotten '80s rockers get the reissue treatment on two of their greatest albums. [20 February 2007]

The Triffids: Born Sandy Devotional

By Rob Horning

On this brooding, evocative record from the mid-1980s, underappreciated Australian songwriter David McComb produced what's essentially a noir novel in song. [8 September 2006]