With the grinding blues-rock intensity of the Beasts of Bourbon and the narrative sophistication of Cold Chisel, The Drones made heavy industrial impact with their second album, Wait Long By the River and the Bodies of Your Enemies Will Float By. It won the inaugural Australian Music Prize in 2005, and Gala Mill and Havilah were each shortlisted in subsequent years—as was singer-songwriter Gareth Liddiard's 2010 solo LP, Strange Tourist. Even more persuasive than all that breathless critical esteem is The Drones' deranged live attack, as captured with explosive precision on Live at the Hi-Fi and harnessed with exhilarating tension on their 2013 masterpiece, I See Seaweed.