Ever feel like you're being ground into dust by brutal, unyielding repetition?

If you live in the NT, relax: you were probably just listening to triple j from 4am on Sunday, when a switching error accidentally put one riff from Melbourne's Thornhill to air for nearly five hours.

The loop de lööp was brought to you by the intro riff to ‘Lily & The Moon’ from the Melbourne five-piece’s debut album The Dark Pool.

Thornhill just made a career-defining album, and it's only their first The Dark Pool is a daring, dynamic debut with massive crossover appeal that's got something to appeal to everyone.

Obviously daylight savings can be a confusing time and nobody is at fault here (technically). But in reality here’s what the official fault report said:

FAULT DETAILS: After the DLS changeover the delay unit feeding tripleJ NT had became locked into a short heavy metal loop

Look, we get it, delay unit feeding tripleJ NT, 2020 has been a wild ride for us all. We forgive you.

“The Northern Territory doesn’t mess around with daylight savings,” said our triple j Content Director Ollie Wards. “So while some states had a nice soft sleep in on Sunday, we figured our hardcore listeners in the NT would be up for some metalcore. On repeat. All morning.”

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What with all this staying indoors and social distancing, if you’d like to travel back to Darwin at exactly 04:30am on Sunday the 5th of April (figuratively and spiritually) hit play up top. Or for the purists out there: