ATN

Australian correspondent Alex Jackson reports: The ever cynical

Andy Prieboy started his fifth tour of Australia this week to promote

his new album, Sins of Our Fathers. Sins is the long

awaited follow-up to Prieboy's debut solo effort of 1990, Upon My

Wicked Son, which included the haunting tale of a prostitute with

AIDS, "Tomorrow Wendy," as well as the acidic humor of "The New York

Debut of an LA Artist (Jazz Crowd)."

who first came to attention in the mid-1980s with legendary

LA band Wall of Voodoo, says he recorded Sins in a friend of a

friend's "stinking hot LA garage studio" between May and August last

year with a piano that kept going out of tune and some cats to keep him

company. Sins of Our Fathers has been released in Australia and

New Zealand through Mushroom/White records and in the UK through

Mushroom.

13-track album is Prieboy's second attempt to follow up Wicked

Son, the previous recordings having been canned during a "corporate

takeover." "Some of the songs are survivors from the great lost Andy Prieboy

album that was supposed to follow Wicked," he told ATN. "Some

are four years old and some were only 20 minutes old before the tape

started rolling."

holds nothing back on Sins of My Fathers. The title

track is his tale of the "fall of the great white race," while high

music execs are in the firing line on "Who Do You Think We're Coming

For." "Psycho Ex" is based on the true story of "an ex-lover's Gilbert

and Sullivan grandiose attempts" at stalking Prieboy and the first

single, "Cannot Not," is about an obsessive Prieboy desperately trying

to cope with rejection.