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“This is an act who’ve clearly worked hard to develop a complex sound.” – Tonedeaf Melbourne punks Take Your Own deliver their long awaited debut album “Open Water” after 18 months of set backs and upsets that, in the same position, would test the mettle of any of their more well-travelled contemporaries. But the end result was worth the perseverance, and certainly worth the wait. Produced by Joel Taylor at Three Phase Studios and mastered at West West Side Music, New York, “Open Water”, while standing tall and formidable on its own merits, exudes the instantly recognisable, yet indefinable sound of Australian punk. Take Your Own are known for their unrelentingly aggressive and technical brand of punk that holds within it a multitude of different sounds that are begged, borrowed and stolen from a myriad of influences. “Open Water” sees guitarists Aaron Braddock and Adam Clements go to war in a complex melee between metal and punk that somehow resolves itself in the unmistakable