Naarm/Melbourne’s Billy Cart, have at long last, released their eagerly-awaited debut album - the facetiously names ‘Greatest Hits’, which hits streaming platforms today. Spanning nine tracks, the record is an endearing and personal collection of songs that threads together ‘90s alternative and grunge, with lo-fi slacker charm and earnest indie songwriting.  

Having always excelled at finding meaning in the mundane, Billy Cart built their songs from everyday moments, small observations and familiar anxieties, approached with warmth, humour and insight. It’s an approach that has led to a strong connection with their audience, often prompting listeners to share their own parallel stories and experiences with the band. ‘Greatest Hits’ gathers these songs into one cohesive release, giving shape to the themes and experiences that have defined the band so far.

Billy Cart blur the lines between lo-fi indie, college-radio psychedelia and mid-’90s alternative on ‘Greatest Hits’ — a charmingly unbraggadocious nine-track collection that sparkles as often as it scuffs. There’s a touch of Courtney Barnett in the conversational ease, a flicker of Pixies in the left-of-centre dynamics, and shades of Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever in the jangling propulsion — but Billy Cart wear it all like thrift-store couture: mismatched, slightly frayed, and undeniably cool. 

‘Greatest Hits’ is share-house-core in its purest form. From the shambling opener ‘Train Lady’ to the bass-busy snap of ‘I Don’t Wanna Steal Your Girlfriend’, the lightly psychedelic drift of ‘There Is No Such Thing As Wasting Time’, and the spacey curtain call of ‘OK’, the record feels like overlapping 3am conversations around a coffee-stained kitchen table after a gig — loose, intimate, and full of half-formed brilliance that somehow lands exactly where it should.

 The album was recorded in 2023, just before singer/drummer/guitarist Billy Raffin relocated to the US for a year, while bandmate Jamie was also moving overseas. With the group’s future uncertain, there was an urgency to preserve the songs as they existed in that moment. But as fate would have it, the band reunited back on home soil in 2025 and have not wasted a moment, releasing four incredible singles in that time.

‘Greatest Hits’ was recorded at RMIT by Tim Johnston of Satellite Studios (Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, Radio Birdman, Beasts of Bourbon, The Waifs) and Dale Mamo. It was mixed by Dale, with mastering by Joe Carra (Crystal Mastering).

To celebrate the release, the band will embark on a huge 13-date tour across VIC, QLD, NSW, ACT and TAS.

Billy Cart have received support from radio across Australia including PBS, 3RRR, Radio Adelaide, 4ZZZ, RTR, 2SER and SYN, and have been added to rotation on FBi Radio. The band have performed at Valley Sounds Festival (2025), with Billy also appearing solo at Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland, Ohio (2024). Their work has been supported by a City of Yarra Small Project Grant (2022), a Bakehouse Studios bursary (2021), and Heaps Normal, who sponsored the band’s August 2025 tour. Billy is also an alum of the AIR Women in Music mentorship program, receiving mentorship from Jo Syme (Big Scary, Pieater Records).

‘Greatest Hits’ is out now on all streaming platforms.

BILLY CART ON TOUR 2026 (sponsored by Heaps Normal)

March 5th 
Barwon Club
Geelong, VIC 

March 6th
Shenanigans Bar
Albury, NSW

March 7th
Tanswell’s
Beechworth, VIC

March 12th
 Junk Bar
Brisbane, QLD

March 13th 
Blah Bar
Lismore, NSW

March 14th
 Iron & Resin
Gold Coast, QLD

March 19th 
Volta
Ballarat, VIC  

March 26th 
Dissent
Canberra, ACT  

March 27th 
Lansdowne
Sydney, NSW

March 28th 
King Street Warehouse
Newcastle, NSW  

March 29th 
La La La’s
Wollongong, NSW  

April 2nd 
MONA
Hobart, TAS

  April 3rd 
Polish Club
Hobart, TAS

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