Jim Salmon's Lament is the fifth studio album by Australian artist Perry Keyes, released in October 2018.

"[3] It ended up with the songs based on a family Keyes knew as child that lived in the James Cook housing commission flats in Waterloo in Sydney.

"[4] The main characters are father, wife-beater, and drug-dealer Jim Salmon; nervous mother Jenny; drug-using son Jimmy, and daughter Iris.

[5] They first appeared in the song "Queen of Everyone's Heart" [I remember your dad in his blue railway shirt, his arm with a snake tattoo/And your mum on Botany Road with her lips real big and her face all black and blue] from Keyes' 2010 album, Johnny Ray's Downtown.

[9] The song, "Girl In The Crystal Cylinder Hoodie" was inspired by an incident in the laundries in the flats at Waterloo.

He said, "I went out one Sunday afternoon and there was a boy and a girl, probably no older than 14, shooting heroin against the wall of one of them and I’ve got a basket full of clothes.

There was a great jukebox there that had Elvis Costello's "(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea" and Buddy Holly's "Rave On" and I used to play it over and over again.