Eddy Current Suppression Ring — the twice ARIA Award-nominated garage/punk rock band — have re-emerged from a long studio silence with Shapes and Forms, their second new song following on the heels of the angular and wiry Swimming Hole, released earlier in 2025.
In recent months, the band have quietly begun re-uploading classic videos from their back catalogue — a move that, in hindsight, hinted at fresh material on the horizon. That promise has now been realised, with Shapes and Forms appearing as part of a new 3-track EP. Longtime fans will no doubt be hoping that this signals the arrival of more material in the form of a full-length album in the near future.
Eddy Current Suppression Ring are famously selective when it comes to live appearances, especially in the latter half of their career, which dates back to 2003. The lengthy gap between the release of 2010’s Rush to Relax and their 2019 return with All In Good Time only added to their mystique. Their enduring existence owes much to their egalitarian ethos — a band dynamic built on mutual respect and an intuitive sense of timing, rather than external pressure — allowing them to sustain momentum into their third decade, a rare feat in punk rock circles.
Shapes and Forms sees the band staying true to their DIY ethos: raw yet considered, taut and rhythmic, carried by the tightly wound guitar-work of Mikey Young (aka Eddy Current) and Brendan Huntley’s (aka Brendan Suppression) unmistakable vocal delivery. It’s a sound unmistakably theirs — familiar……and still capable of surprise.
Shapes and Forms was recorded on Cool Death Records, and is available on the band’s Bandcamp page.
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