Mar 16, 2026

Muss Blues: Songs & Instrumentals

Today I have released a compilation called Muss Blues: Songs & Instrumentals, 2012-14 by Hot Palms. Hot Palms was a band that existed for some years in Melbourne/Naarm. It’s an 18 track overview of the work we did, home recordings and live recordings.


The CD will be available at Repressed Records (Newtown), Franks Wild Years (Thirroul), Music Farmers (Wollongong) and Swoon (Wollongong) this week. It comes with a zine that includes liner notes by Nathan Roche.

'Muss Blues: Songs & Instrumentals, 2012-14' is an 18 track compilation of EPs, singles and previously unreleased material. Hot Palms was an always-changing Australian band led by guitarist Alec Marshall (Blue Divers), and at times Emma Russack, for a few years in Naarm/Melbourne. It was sometimes a 10-piece instrumental band, or a duo of vocals and guitar, but mostly somewhere in between. 'Muss Blues...' is a collection of home recordings and live recordings, with contributions from Ashley Bundang, Jake Core, Jordan Ireland, Zahra Khamissa, Jake Phillips and André Vanderwert.


You can buy the album on Bandcamp here.

Hope you enjoy the compilation. I will soon begin work on putting together a whole extra album of previously unreleased material from this period.