David Chesworth / Maydena Creek LP Vinyl

Maydena Creek is the new solo album for Australian post-punk iconoclast David Chesworth, renowned for his 80s groups Essendon Airport, Whadya Want? and David Chesworth & Bill McDonald, plus his composition and sound-art works of the last four decades. The album is released on vinyl by Program Records and digitally by Chapter Music on 16 October 2026.

The album is named after a creek that runs beneath a Tasmanian rainforest, a recording of which appears briefly on the album. Subterranean geological vibrations combine on Maydena Creek with modern distortions and surreal imagery to form a compelling and hallucinatory work.

In a typical Chesworthian move, the music explores two techno forces from very different creative camps: the quirky 1970s Fun Machine organ, with its surprisingly credible drum machine and chord generator, and the more egg-headed Moog Subharmonicon, which draws on forgotten early 20th-century electronic instruments such as the Trautonium and Rhythmicon. Chesworth combines the two to generate his characteristic polyrhythms and deep harmonic undertones.

The result is an album of off-kilter but strangely catchy electronic pop, underpinned by its experimental vibes. Maydena Creek also sees David return to singing on three tracks, after decades of instrumental composition & working with other vocalists.