Biography
Peter & the Silhouettes, an Australian ensemble active during the 1960s, supplied two tracks to the mid-1960s anthology The Scene in Northern Victoria, establishing the band as a capable garage outfit. Of those selections, the stronger cut “Claudette Jones” stood out as effective garage pop, while the restrained “The Natural Man” echoed the organ-centered blues-pop that the Animals and Them produced in their formative period. Personnel adjustments in 1966 led the group to adopt the name the Tol-Puddle Martyrs, resulting in two credible singles issued later in the decade that adopted a more polished approach shaped by psychedelia and the Kinks.