Woollen Kits / Weather The Storm LP Yellow Vinyl ***PRE-ORDER***

Fourteen years have passed since Woollen Kits released two albums in a single year (Woollen Kits and Four Girls, both 2012), but Melbourne/Naarm’s beloved Kits are back to remind us what we’ve been missing all this time. Weather the Storm is the title of their new record, and across ten tracks it’s clear just how well they can write a hook, a verse, a chorus, a song; bringing together themes of everyday life, love and sincerity with aphorisms, stories and the classic sound we know and love.

Woollen Kits’ approach is almost as minimal and primitive as it was back in 2007, when singer/guitarist Tom Hardisty first sent a few channels into the red on an old Tascam tape machine. Simple chords, strong melodies, witty lyrics and a clear message. It’s a hell of a combination when it’s done well, and one they would only refine from there.

Tom (Hardisty) recruited a second Tom (Ridgewell, drums) and a Leon (Applebee, guitar) to help guide his new Cramps/Half Japanese-worship bedroom project into a real-life band, playing their first gig on NYE ’08 before launching into 2009 to record their first canon release, the Teenage Love 7”.

Weather the Storm still draws from the same deck of cards, but opens the door to some more classically renowned influences like The Velvet Underground, Television Personalities, Marine Girls, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, et al. As a demonstration of this development, the band even break their own rules with a bass track (!!) and synth string ensemble on the album centrepiece “(Remember) December”, wear their influences on their sleeves on the hit single “Back of a Truck”, and show their ability to switch between tender and their approximation of shredding on the closer “A Little Light”, with Ridgewell taking the vocal reins.

Yes, much time has passed since the band’s last record, Four Girls, came out in late 2012, but in the interim members have released plenty of other music across numerous projects, including Constant Mongrel, Nun, Canine Apathy, The UV Race, TB Ridge as The Director, Calamari Girls & more. The band made earlier attempts at writing for this record during their break, but when a few new ideas weren’t landing, they decided to give it more time. Eventually, everything fell into place in mid-2025. All three members have since started families and are currently raising young children… to whom their rock and roll torches can be passed down in another fourteen years.

Woollen Kits’ third album, Weather the Storm, is out November 20, 2026 on Anti Fade Records.