Various Artists

Can't Stop It! II - Australian Post-Punk 1979-84 (2026 Deluxe Edition)

Tracklist

  1. The Systematics - International Voltage
  2. International Exiles – Let’s Be Sophisticated
  3. Asphixiation – The Crush
  4. Tactics – Watch My Hands
  5. Severed Heads – Lamborghini
  6. The Goat That Went “OM” – The Pirate Song
  7. Use No Hooks – Do the Job
  8. Microfilm – Centrefold
  9. Scattered Order – Swiss Like Knives and Forks
  10. The Jetsonnes – Newspaper
  11. Rhythmyx Chymx – The Now Generation
  12. Brrr Cold – Mothers At War
  13. SoliPsiK– See Saw
  14. Wild Dog Rodeo – Charging the Lighthouse
  15. Belle Du Soir – Treasure Island
  16. Ya Ya Choral – God’s Buzzsaw
  17. Essendon Airport – I Feel A Song Coming On
  18. Swell Guys – Sidetracking
  19. Scapa Flow – Somewhere
  20. Nuvo Bloc – Never Mind
  21. Lachelle – Purple Hearts
  22. Chainmale – Freakout
  23. This Five Minutes – How
  24. Chocolate Grinders – People With Leukaemia
  25. Tiny Town – Living Out Of Living
  26. Aural Indifference – Baby Love

About the album

The second instalment of Chapter Music’s acclaimed Australian post-punk compilation series Can’t Stop It! is released on vinyl for the first time as a deluxe double album on September 4, 2026.

The compilation was originally released on CD in 2007, and presents an incredible array of inventive and often previously unheard music from the period 1979-1984. Now Chapter Music updates the compilation with six never before reissued bonus tracks, new remastering by Mikey Young, plus new liner notes, photos and layout.

This is a fantastically rich and dynamic time in Australian music history, a time when Australia stepped out of the shadows of overseas influence and asserted its own musical identity for perhaps the first time.

Can’t Stop It! II features tracks that have now become touchstones in Australia's post-punk history, including Lamborghini by Severed Heads and proto Oz-rap classic Do the Job by Use No Hooks, plus early works by the likes of Dead Can Dance’s Lisa Gerrard and Hunters & Collectors’ Mark Seymour.

Bonus tracks include the astounding How by Brisbane's This Five Minutes, which pre-dates The Stone Roses' Fool's Gold by at least five years, the gorgeous Purple Hearts by Melbourne's mysterious Lachelle, and Tasmania's own performance-punk Chainmale with his outlandish Freakout.

Release Date: 2026-09-04