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| To coincide with the New Christs' recent European tour, Rob Younger put together a 2LP 'best-of' comp, The Burning Of Rome. |
NEW CHRISTS – THE BURNING OF ROME: SELECTED WORKS
To celebrate the 2025 European tour Rob Younger personally curated career-spanning double vinyl titled The Burning of Rome: Selected Works. Now comes the local Australian version with alternate cover art, available in a super limited (100 copies) white vinyl as well as standard black vinyl pressed locally at Suitcase Records in Brisbane.
Rob Younger, best known as the voice of Radio Birdman and a defining figure of the Australian underground, formed The New Christs in the early 1980s as an outlet for his darker, more intense musical visions. Over the years, the band has become an essential part of the global rock'n'roll landscape, blending raw garage energy with post-punk menace, sophisticated songwriting and a ferocious live presence. Despite frequent changes in the lineup (featuring some of the finest musicians from bands like the Celibate Rifles, Lime Spiders, The Barracudas and Hoodoo Gurus), the band has maintained an unmistakable identity, one defined by urgency, grit and uncompromising quality.
The Burning of Rome: Selected Works doesn’t settle for the easy picks. Instead, it offers a deeper, more comprehensive look at The New Christs sonic universe, drawing from every corner of their discography, from their feral 1981 debut single Face a New God to highlights from their later studio albums, Distemper (1989), Lower Yourself (1997), We Got This! (2002), Gloria (2009) and Incantations(2014). The twenty tracks compiled here paint a vivid portrait of a band that, while never prolific, has never missed a beat.
The collection opens with the thunderous distortion of We Have Landed taken from the 1997 album Lower Yourself, an album that showcases the band at their most focused and dangerous. From there, the listener is plunged into a world of tense guitars, pounding rhythms and Younger’s unmistakable vocal presence. There’s the propulsive energy of Another Sin, featuring blistering guitar work by Charlie Owen, the haunting, late-night feel of Golden Street, the sunlit drive of Spit It Out, and the fiery swagger of On Top of Me. And of course, the epic title track, The Burning of Rome, is a standout moment, embodying the band’s signature mix of intensity and elegance.
Crucially, this isn’t just a nostalgic retrospective of their 1980s classics, although gems like Born Out of Time and Coming Apart are included, it’s a celebration of the full arc of The New Christs career. It shines a light on lesser-known tracks that deserve far more recognition and proves, once again, that this band has been producing vital, hard-hitting rock music for over four decades.
Releases December 12th 2025. Limited White Vinyl (100 Copies) / Standard Black Vinyl.
New Christs – The Burning Of Rome
1. We Have Landed
2. Another Sin
3. The Golden Street
4. No Way On Earth
5. Jenny
6. Coming Apart
7. This Is A Party
8. Spit It Out
9. My Existence
10. Asphalt
11. These Reasons
12. From On High
13. The Wheel
14. We Got This
15. Born Out Of Time
16. Waves Form
17. The Burning Of Rome
18. Love's Underground
19. On Top Of Me
20. Bonsoir A Vous
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Selected independent stores in Australia will have copies of the black vinyl available in-store from Friday December 12th including Clarity Records (Adelaide), Hiss & Crackle Records (Newcastle), Music Farmers (Wollongong), Rocksteady Records (Melbourne), Tommy Gun Records(Hobart) and a few more to be added soon.
Limited copies on both white and black will be available from Citadel Mailorder here.
You can also try Bandcamp for any remaining copies of the initial EU tour release from back in August right here. Check out a couple of the New Christs early singles and watch a recent performance of "We Have Landed" below.
