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If you're interested in listening to something off the beaten track I'd suggest checking out some of the material at Low Transit Industries.
CO-PILGRIM: It's Always Parade & She-Lie
FONDA 500: Electronique Bee 101 & Push Button Skillz (not via LTI in the UK / Europe)
NEW ESTATE: I Wanna Have Control & On Your Side
SHANNON McARDLE: This Longing & Leave Me For Dead
SUBAUDIBLE HUM: All For The Caspian, Sugarcoat, Science Maketh The Scientist
There is also film clips there for F500, New Estate & SubAudible Hum... Enjoy!!
SUBAUDIBLE HUM SINGLE LAUNCH
THE TOTE
SATURDAY 11TH OF OCTOBER
WITH HOT LITTLE HANDS & THREE MONTH SUNSET
SUBAUDIBLE HUM will be launching a new digital single from their forthcoming album at The Tote in Collingwood on the 11th of October with TUCKER B's & guests. The song is called Tokyo, Craigieburn and the Moon & will be available exclusively from iTunes & via the LTI shop the week of the show. With some time under their belt & a swag of new demos the boys have managed to record a new track in the lead up to the recording & release of their new album due in March 2009.
The track is Tokyo, Craigieburn and the Moon & will be available exclusively from iTunes & then the LTI site the week of the launch. They'll be having a massive launch party at THE TOTE on the 11th of October with Three Month Sunset & Hot Little Hands...
New single available on the 11th via LTI, iTunes & Inertia
EPICURE
Snakes and Foxes
The first single from the forthcoming new Epicure album Postcards From A Ghost
When we last spoke,
You were drinking blood from some other guy's throat
When last I heard,
You were putting out smokes on your little girl
There's a delicious bitterness to the lyrics of Snakes and Foxes, the first single and opening salvo from Ballarat rock band Epicure's new fifth album, Postcards From A Ghost. Lead singer Juan Alban might be the quiet, introspective type in person, but his pen was dripping venom when he wrote these lines. Heartbreak and betrayal will do that to a guy.
"I think it's our angriest record," asserts Juan. "Lyrically, anyway. I think it's the most sinister and darkest thing we've done. But it's also our best sounding album."
He's not wrong. From the opening sinewy chords of Snakes and Foxes, it's clear Epicure have stepped things up a notch. It's a more muscular, solid and unabashed guitar-heavy sound courtesy of new guitarist Mick Hubbard (ex-Jen Cloher's Endess Sea); the leadman's slow-hand burn and bluesy flair, now a lynchpin in Epicure's sound. Dom Santamaria's driving drums and Tim Bignell's sonorous bass tones provide the rhythmic spine to the song, just as Juan's bitter-sweet melodies and keyboardist Heath McCurdy's tinkling ivories and passionate Hammond solo lifts the tune into the final glorious refrain.
Snakes and Foxes was one of the last songs the band wrote before commencing recording, and even Juan wonders at the natural immediacy of the hook, as he plucked it literally from the air one night.
"The melody just kind of came to me," he says. "The kind of melody where I thought 'ahh, shit, I must of stolen it from somewhere. It's just one of those songs. We've had a lot of people say that it doesn't sound like Epicure."
Produced and mixed by Lindsay Gravina (Shihad/Magic Dirt), the new Epicure see-saw and saunter between the dual palettes of alternative rock and alt-country. All up, it's a rootsier, rockier affair, steeped in rich, warm bluesy guitar tones, the producer capturing both that dichotomy and that dynamic perfectly. Immaculately crafted, sonically gorgeous, and imbued with all Epicure's trademark beautiful melancholy, Postcards From A Ghost sees the band write the best songs of their career, and Snakes and Foxes is but one of them.
Talk about a gold rush; this little ole band from Ballarat have gone and recorded a truly world class album.
Touring in October
The Curse of Company
Leo Magnets Joins a Gang
Singer/songwriter, designer and actor David Wiley Rennick, best known for producing two internationally celebrated albums as part of Dappled Cities, has turned his hand to a blend of myth, music and storytelling with his least democratic work to date, The Curse of Company.
THE LAND occupied by The Curse of Company is eerily embodied in the debut record, Leo Magnets Joins a Gang, and for its creation Rennick collaborated with the equally enigmatic talents of the redsunband's Sarah Kelly (vocals), Mr Bungle / Secret Chiefs 3's Danny Heifetz (drums, percussion), Jack Ladder (bass guitar), and Gerling's Burke Reid (co-producer, engineer).
THE GANG extends to involve other prolific and committed artists (including photographer Glen Wilk Wilkie and film director Zane Pearson), seeing the entire alliance reminiscent of that momentous Australian era that spawned the likes of The Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds.
THE MUSIC draws on Rennick's multi-platform artistic practices to convey story on a massive scale, mixing the psychedelic influence of The Velvet Underground with Neil Young's scalding alt-rock and folk, and drawing on classic, coming-of-age storytelling that recalls a dizzying mix of The Odyssey, Blade Runner, 2001 and Apocalypse Now.
If you're interested in listening to something off the beaten track I'd suggest checking out some of the material at Low Transit Industries.
CO-PILGRIM: It's Always Parade & She-Lie
FONDA 500: Electronique Bee 101 & Push Button Skillz (not via LTI in the UK / Europe)
NEW ESTATE: I Wanna Have Control & On Your Side
SHANNON McARDLE: This Longing & Leave Me For Dead
SUBAUDIBLE HUM: All For The Caspian, Sugarcoat, Science Maketh The Scientist
There is also film clips there for F500, New Estate & SubAudible Hum... Enjoy!!
SUBAUDIBLE HUM SINGLE LAUNCH
THE TOTE
SATURDAY 11TH OF OCTOBER
WITH HOT LITTLE HANDS & THREE MONTH SUNSET
SUBAUDIBLE HUM will be launching a new digital single from their forthcoming album at The Tote in Collingwood on the 11th of October with TUCKER B's & guests. The song is called Tokyo, Craigieburn and the Moon & will be available exclusively from iTunes & via the LTI shop the week of the show. With some time under their belt & a swag of new demos the boys have managed to record a new track in the lead up to the recording & release of their new album due in March 2009.
The track is Tokyo, Craigieburn and the Moon & will be available exclusively from iTunes & then the LTI site the week of the launch. They'll be having a massive launch party at THE TOTE on the 11th of October with Three Month Sunset & Hot Little Hands...
New single available on the 11th via LTI, iTunes & Inertia
EPICURE
Snakes and Foxes
The first single from the forthcoming new Epicure album Postcards From A Ghost
When we last spoke,
You were drinking blood from some other guy's throat
When last I heard,
You were putting out smokes on your little girl
There's a delicious bitterness to the lyrics of Snakes and Foxes, the first single and opening salvo from Ballarat rock band Epicure's new fifth album, Postcards From A Ghost. Lead singer Juan Alban might be the quiet, introspective type in person, but his pen was dripping venom when he wrote these lines. Heartbreak and betrayal will do that to a guy.
"I think it's our angriest record," asserts Juan. "Lyrically, anyway. I think it's the most sinister and darkest thing we've done. But it's also our best sounding album."
He's not wrong. From the opening sinewy chords of Snakes and Foxes, it's clear Epicure have stepped things up a notch. It's a more muscular, solid and unabashed guitar-heavy sound courtesy of new guitarist Mick Hubbard (ex-Jen Cloher's Endess Sea); the leadman's slow-hand burn and bluesy flair, now a lynchpin in Epicure's sound. Dom Santamaria's driving drums and Tim Bignell's sonorous bass tones provide the rhythmic spine to the song, just as Juan's bitter-sweet melodies and keyboardist Heath McCurdy's tinkling ivories and passionate Hammond solo lifts the tune into the final glorious refrain.
Snakes and Foxes was one of the last songs the band wrote before commencing recording, and even Juan wonders at the natural immediacy of the hook, as he plucked it literally from the air one night.
"The melody just kind of came to me," he says. "The kind of melody where I thought 'ahh, shit, I must of stolen it from somewhere. It's just one of those songs. We've had a lot of people say that it doesn't sound like Epicure."
Produced and mixed by Lindsay Gravina (Shihad/Magic Dirt), the new Epicure see-saw and saunter between the dual palettes of alternative rock and alt-country. All up, it's a rootsier, rockier affair, steeped in rich, warm bluesy guitar tones, the producer capturing both that dichotomy and that dynamic perfectly. Immaculately crafted, sonically gorgeous, and imbued with all Epicure's trademark beautiful melancholy, Postcards From A Ghost sees the band write the best songs of their career, and Snakes and Foxes is but one of them.
Talk about a gold rush; this little ole band from Ballarat have gone and recorded a truly world class album.
Touring in October
The Curse of Company
Leo Magnets Joins a Gang
Singer/songwriter, designer and actor David Wiley Rennick, best known for producing two internationally celebrated albums as part of Dappled Cities, has turned his hand to a blend of myth, music and storytelling with his least democratic work to date, The Curse of Company.
THE LAND occupied by The Curse of Company is eerily embodied in the debut record, Leo Magnets Joins a Gang, and for its creation Rennick collaborated with the equally enigmatic talents of the redsunband's Sarah Kelly (vocals), Mr Bungle / Secret Chiefs 3's Danny Heifetz (drums, percussion), Jack Ladder (bass guitar), and Gerling's Burke Reid (co-producer, engineer).
THE GANG extends to involve other prolific and committed artists (including photographer Glen Wilk Wilkie and film director Zane Pearson), seeing the entire alliance reminiscent of that momentous Australian era that spawned the likes of The Dirty Three and The Bad Seeds.
THE MUSIC draws on Rennick's multi-platform artistic practices to convey story on a massive scale, mixing the psychedelic influence of The Velvet Underground with Neil Young's scalding alt-rock and folk, and drawing on classic, coming-of-age storytelling that recalls a dizzying mix of The Odyssey, Blade Runner, 2001 and Apocalypse Now.
