It has been a while. Six years to be exact. However, Free Time, the project of Melbourne’s Dion Nadia, is finally back with a third album that is augmented by contributions of fellow Aussie alt.jangle luninaries such as Martin Frawley and Amy Franz (Twerps, Super Wild Horses) and produced by Jarvis Taveniere (Purple Mountains, The Avalanches, Molly Burch).

I am not exactly sure what the intended core thematic of the album is as there is just enough lyrical dexterity for multi-interpretaions, however with this sort of Melbourne dolewave appeal, resignation about life’s boredom is never really far away and let’s face it no nation / musical movement represents stagnation quite as well as the Australians and their refusal to indulge in the histrionics of self indulgent over emotionality.

As such the best of Jangle Jargon sees mid tempo tracks such as the droning, incessant rhythms of Half Measures resign itself to a life where “There’s nothing between this year and the next”, The Terrace offers sumptuous Lewsberg style semi spoken word meets Aussie slacker pop and Long Centuries sees nothing change as “long centures overlap’. Of course any sense of maudlin is avoided courtesy of the apposite vibrancy of tracks that are coursed with the best of the albums chiming riffs.

The remainder of the album visits more traditional dolewave refrains in Never Your Turn and Lost World, which juxtapose the Aussie slacker-pop with the truncated lyrical rhythms of Go Get Mum and the vocal delivery of David Kilgour, whereas Beak In A Cup, Disciplines and Mastery and Turn It Over are reminiscent of the beautiful, laconic melancholy of the recent Zac Denton solo aesthetic.

Nadia has spent time of late living in New York…thankfully you can take the Aussie out of Australia, but you can’t take Melbourne out of the Aussie. His best album yet.

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