vinyl release in 2013 on French label Beast Records. The title roughly translates as ‘pop music is evil’ and was described as "an antidote to the insidious disease that is flaccid pop" and having "a Dirty Three and Nick Cave-like gritty Aussie folk quality to it". The EP was produced by Stapleton and recorded and mixed by engineer Jez Giddings at Melbourne’s Hothouse Studios with drummer Craig Williamson and bassist Leif van den Dungen. The second track on the EP ‘Song Of The Artesian Water’ is an adaptation of a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. We Are The Plague - LP (2020) Stapleton's debut full-length album was released on July 31, 2020 via Negative Prophet Records, in conjunction with Cargo Records. Album sessions began in January 2019 in Oxforshire, England at Ox4 Studio with Gavin Jay (Jim Jones Revue / Jim Jones and The Righteous Mind), and Jim Macaulay (The Stranglers) recording bass and drums. Stapleton later added vocals and guitar at her home studio, with Gareth Skinner recording cello parts remotely in Melbourne, Australia. Stapleton produced the album and it was mixed by Dan Cox at Urchin Studios in London. Themes of the album deal with environmental degradation, climate change, and societal collapse. Stapleton asks "Why have we been so quick to take drastic action on coronavirus yet drag our feet when it comes to dealing with climate change which could bring down not only us but the entire global ecosystem? Will we go back to destroying our planet, poisoning our resources, and hammering the nails in our collective coffin? Or is this the wake-up call we need to re-calibrate and work together for a better future?" The album was critically acclaimed, appearing on several Albums of The Year lists including landing #16 on Louder Than War’s Top 20 alongside Nadine Shah, Porridge Radio, and Fontaines DC. The album scored 9 out of 10 from Vive Le Rock Magazine who called it "exquisitely executed… will stack up plaudits by the dozen". Classic Rock praised its "beguiling gothic blues landscapes" whilst MOJO approved of the "fiery rock poetry, nerve-shredding blues and dark magnetism". Reviewing the album, Louder Than War lauded a "dazzling debut" that blends "the spirit of Patti Smith and PJ Harvey with the soul of Nick Cave and Mark Lanegan". They also noted Stapleton’s guitar playing, describing it as "a blizzard of distortion, notes bending and