“[We] put all our stuff in a Pflugerville storage unit and headed to Australia,” wrote Go Fever firecracker Acey Monaro in late 2020. In fact, she and hubby/bandmate Ben Burdick more or less stayed put there following the Austin quintet’s second LP the following October, Velvet Fist, all post- New Wave riffs, pop hooks, and dance beats. Emailing from Sydney and an MFA program, the New South Wales native now applies to Down Under doctoral programs. “We might start doing a yearly Austin show, and I reckon there’s a good chance we’ll record something too because we all have home studios set up and we miss playing together heaps!” Matthew Logan Vasquez headlines with his own burning naturalism. – Raoul Hernandez