Tracklist:

1. The Arsehole
2. Fun Guy
3. Bin Boy
4. The One
5. The Pricks
6. Baby Squid
7. Terracotta Brick
8. Turtle in the Sand
9. Feels
10. Bruno
11. Old DC
12. Companion Pony

Within the first few seconds of the opening song on Australian troubadour Peter Bibbys latest album, we get an unvarnished look at the man behind the music as he observes the late-night scene of a local watering hole with increasingly bleary eyes:No one seems to want to talk to me / cuz Im the arsehole, probably.

Indeed, that lovable ambivalence is at the heart of Drama King, Bibbys fourth studio album for Spinning Top Records. The project was produced by first-time collaborator Dan Luscombe (The Drones, Amyl and the Sniffers) and mixed by White Denims Josh Block a frequent collaborator with Leon Bridges.

An artist who has been celebrated as inherently working-class and wholeheartedly independent, Bibby comes by this caution honestly, having cut his teeth in the rough-and-tumble underground rock scene centered around Perths Hyde Park Hotel in Western Australia.

Bibbys affable personality has gotten him plenty of mileage as a live act. Hes toured the U.S. with Pond and performed at the infamous open mic night at Pappy and Harriets in the California desert. Hes also taken the stage at international festivals such as Laneway, Falls, All Points East, South by Southwest and South Africas Rocking the Daisies while notching his fair share of rowdy headlining shows.