Weather Report, is the third album from Melbourne/Naarm based, Hobsons Bay Coast Guard (HBCG). The 14 track LP is a comically cynical ode to our dying planet, with each song presenting a different natural disaster and its physical and metaphorical relationship to the human experience.

The album is available on limited edition clear 12 inch vinyl (100 only), black 12 inch vinyl and digitally.

Since their inception in 2017, HBCG have quickly and assuredly carved a unique groove in the Australian underground scene, consistently presenting an array of creative recordings, with 2019 debut album, Hobsons Bay Coast Guard, 2022 experimental pop record, Tubular Swells, and a notoriously fun and captivating live show.

With Weather Report, the DIY explorers have collated their hard-won experience into their most mature yet lighthearted offering yet. 14 tracks spanning surf-rock, punk, weirdo-pop and their own brand of creative mayhem.

Across the album, the band seeks to explore humanity’s relationship to the mega-natural. As the environment crumbles around us by the weight of our collective decisions, the earth answers with storms, quakes, floods, and eruptions, each cataclysm a reminder of our small place in the universe and our huge responsibility ecosystems.

Every song on the record reflects some part of that contradiction. Natural disasters as metaphors for love, loss, relationships and the relentless passage of time. Singles, ‘Tidal Wave’ and ‘Monsoon’, both address the acceptance of life even in the face of huge adversity. While the 60’s punk-inspired ‘Tornado Time’ and ‘Earthquake’ talk about the beginning and end of relationships, ‘Sunsetters’ – a six minute surf-psych epic – expresses the loss of inhibition at the twilight of a life well lived.

Weather Report was recorded and produced in their own studio by band members Erik Scerba and Christopher Loftis, and mixed and mastered by Erik Scerba. The instruments and sounds were performed and conceived by Chris, Erik, drummer Jack Foy, percussionist and vocalist Jess Foy, keyboardist and vocalist Sarah Tibben, and lead guitarist and vocalist Henry Dempsey.

The Hobsons’ live experience is no less unique. Abandoning the pretensions of the often long-faced and smug art world, the six-piece’s electrifying stage presence is about fun and only fun. Five voices join in Brian Wilson-esque harmonies layered over percussive rhythms and driving punk-like guitars.

With the backing of their committed cult-following in their hometown of Melbourne, the band are poised to spread their surf-rock tentacles even further across Australia and beyond.