Died Pretty’s Doughboy Hollow: can Australia’s most overlooked album finally find the audience it deserves?

Thirty-five years after release, the Australian classic is finally getting a vinyl reissue Brett Myers, the former guitarist of one of Australia’s greatest bands, Died Pretty, admits he’s a terrible judge of his own work. Back in 1991 – after spending a few weeks mixing the band’s classic fourth album, Doughboy Hollow, in London – he nervously played a tape of the finished work in the New York offices of the band’s overseas label, Beggars Banquet. Myers was aware it was different from anythin...

By Andrew Stafford