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Bench Press Wrote a Song About All Your Shitty Sharehouse Situations

The star of the Melbourne post punk's new video is no one.

Yes, share house living can be brutal. From the classic passive aggressive "[HOUSEMATES] name" leftovers in the fridge, to your housemate's shitty boyfriend who you know uses all your expensive Aesop body wash. Lest we forget, the housemate who plays acoustic guitar and sings at 7am, cooks dinner at 11pm and showers at 1am because she's operating on "Berlin time".

Melbourne post-punk outfit Bench Press have nailed those exact anxieties of communal living in their latest track, "Group Anxiety". The track has remnants of beloved garage punkers Eddy Current Suppression Ring, but if it was fronted by an Australian, less perverse Steve Albini, circa 1987 Big Black.

To say "Group Anxiety" evokes anxiety does seem a little too obvious, but the track goes beyond that shitty housemate who never pays rent on time. In the video, the visuals ensure that you're also being reminded that the urban ideal of living is now jaded, less secluded, expanding at absurd rates and extortionate prices.

"Group Anxiety" is available June 16 through Poison City records.

They launch the single June 29 in Melbourne at the Grace Darling