Brisbane five-piece the Belligerents have a new sprawling and psychedelic single, Caroline, from their long-awaited debut album, Science Fiction.

Of course, "long-awaited" is a PR cliché, but in the case of the Belligerents it might actually be true. Though the band first formed in 2010, it's only now that they've gotten round to their debut long-player.

When the time came, the band got away. The Belligerents hired a farm on a remote island two hours out of Brisbane, and converted the farmhouse into a temporary studio. Mornings were spent surfing and swimming, and evenings turned into late nights as they experimented with weird sounds and new ideas that went right back into the next day's writing and recording. After such a long wait, everyone was raring to go-and that excitement shines through on the album.

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