Bad//Dreems continue to map out Australia’s foreboding future on their fifth studio album. Driven by guitarist/songwriter Alex Cameron and singer Ben Marwe, the Adelaide band populates Ultra Dundee with tales of rising temperatures, drought-stricken farmers, deserted outback mining towns and all-night drives in an inland sea. “Night Shooting” mentions Gallipoli and TAB [Australian betting organisations] alike, while “January 26”—inspired by the failed Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum—is a melancholy ballad that wrings a lot of feeling out of Marwe’s ragged vocals. Bad//Dreems also expand their musical palette, adding synth and drum machines to the droll slow-burn of the Adelaide-set opener, “Slaughterhouse ’85”, before lodging themselves within a long tradition of Australian rabble rousers, with the title track recalling Nick Cave in carnival barker mode and other tracks playing like an updated version of Midnight Oil. Self-recorded by the band before being finished with co-producer Dan Luscombe (Amyl and the Sniffers, Courtney Barnett), Ultra Dundee consciously circles back to themes introduced on Bad//Dreems’ 2015 debut Dogs at Bay. Those include not letting their country off the hook for its sorry treatment of its environment and its Indigenous people, among other injustices.