Serious Young Insects were a short lived Australian pop rock band formed in 1980.
[1] Australian musicologist, Ian McFarlane, described Serious Young Insects as a "quirky, three-piece Melbourne new wave band".
The album's second and final single, "Faraway Places", was written and sung by Vallance and did not chart.
[3] Richard Pleasance, a classically trained guitarist, was a fan and briefly joined the group before it broke up in the following year.
[1] Pleasance and Farnan went on to co-found the group Boom Crash Opera, which had 10 top-40 hits in Australia in the 1980s and 90s.