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Australia has an underground music scene littered with more steaming wrecks than a ‘Mad Max’ flick. Thundering down that uncharted highway once more comes the musical muscle and finesse of a band called flu-X. FRS2 is the follow-up release to their flagship 1999 release ‘FRSU’, an album likened by Drum Media in a review at the time as having the ‘playfulness and artistry of Can’. Shunned by radio the first time around, flu-X remain proof positive that tough music men still prevail even in an age of fickle listening trends and self-imploding chart-topping lists. Now flu-X return to present what has actually been going on in the decade since they first stepped out of the musical wilderness. Power loops and guitars meld seamlessly with raw vocals on politically savvy tracks like ‘The End’, ‘It’s Not About Us’ and the Cobainian stirrings of ‘Takin’ Down Their Names’. The funereal almost maudlin reaches of ‘Epitaph 011’ are deftly offset by the guitar charged ‘Killcare’ and spoken word