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WESTERMAN
Your Hero Is Not Dead
Buy/stream it here.
TRACKLIST
Drawbridge
The Line
Big Nothing Glow
Waiting On Design
Think I’ll Stay
Dream Appropriate
Easy Money
Blue Commanche
Confirmation
Paper Dogs
Float Over
Your Hero Is Not Dead
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Where are you currently based?
Montreal, Canada
How did you first start playing music?
My dad was a wedding DJ growing up so he taught me how to spin at a young age.
What’s been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been so far?
Despite the lockdown and not being able to spin, the silver lining has been having a lot of studio time and new music.
Your new single ‘Control’ from your forthcoming album ‘Until We Dance’ is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting?
The track was influenced by the nightclubs I miss playing in. I wanted to release a darker and moodier track, and JT Soul nailed the mysterious and alluring vibe with his lyrics.
How did you go about writing Control?
I drove over to JT Soul’s studio for a writing session, and he essentially figured out the vocal melody right away. He then jumped in the recording booth, freestyled some flows and then came out and started putting words to it. I loved the ‘you lost all control’ part before the drop, so we worked around that after.
I was looking for a vocalist for this track for over a year, so I was in awe at how efficiently he works. He kind of entered my world of dance and electronic for this collaboration and he smashed it. He’s super talented.
Where and when did you record/produce/master and who did you work with?
This track actually took quite some time and effort. I started the initial idea and first sketch in my home studio. I then brought it over to my buddy Kevin Figs’ studio, where he laid down the guitars and the phat bass sound. After that I searched far and wide for a vocalist until I met JT Soul. We had a couple sessions and worked on the track in his studio. I then arranged the vocals and structure at home until it was finally ready to be mixed and mastered at the label studios.
What programs/instruments did you use?
Kevin’s 1960’s limited edition Eric Clapton Fender Stratocaster for all the guitar layers. Trillian for the bass line. The drums were sampled and taken from my previous release ‘Never Be The Same’. And Refx’ nexus3 and Native Instruments’ Komplete package for the synthesizers.
How did you approach the recording/production of Control?
When I sit down in studio, I always reflect on what worked on the dancefloor in my club gigs that week. I knew I wanted to have a sexy club track I could play in my sets, so I started from there. The mysterious pads and chords in the beginning came first. Then a nice, long build up before a climatic drop that hits you hard.
Please tell us about what we can expect from your album, format, styles, sounds etc:
The album is fun, it’s feel-good and every track features an awesome vocalist from around the world. You’ll hear a lot of live instruments, performed by some super talented artists as well. You could call it dance or electronic or house… All I know is that I had a lot of fun making it and it’s meant to make you move.
Which artists and records have influenced you most over the years?
Tiësto was my idol growing up. Seeing him sell out stadiums and arenas was the coolest thing. Then when I first got into house music over a decade ago, I was influenced by French producers like David Guetta, Bob Sinclair and Daft Punk, who are still more relevant than ever. Daft Punk’s ‘One More Time’ is my favorite song of all time. I loved the Dutch and Swedish DJs at the time as well. Seeing Erick Morillo in Mykonos changed my life in 2011. Then I got into deep house in 2012 and fell in love with Jamie Jones, Lee Foss, Hot Since 82 and at the same time, the Swedish House Mafia, Avicii and more. Then I was inspired by UK producers like Mark Knight, Calvin Harris, Gorgon City and more. Nowadays, I’d love to sign a record with Defected or Toolroom Records.
Who are you listening to at the moment?
At the moment I’m listening to Ludo Lacoste, Tom&Collins, Wh0, John Summit, Black Coffee.
What do you like to do away from music?
I love to travel, sail, eat, play soccer, snowboard, trade stocks, watch movies and hang out with family and friends.
Any shows coming up?
I’ve got some virtual gigs lined up but live shows will have until summer 2021 here in Canada.
What’s planned for the remainder of 2020 going into 2021?
Make more music. Prepare some tracks I could play out in summer 2021 and hopefully get to throw a little album release party. Fingers crossed.
Favourite food and place to hangout?
I love Greek food obviously, but my absolute favorite food dish is tacos! I can eat tacos breakfast, lunch, dinner every single day no problem. As for my favorite place to hang out; I sometimes spin in bars and nightclubs 5 nights a week, so my favorite place to be is at home. Hanging out at my place and having tacos with my friends is my ideal off night.
Melbourne’s, Stuck Out have revealed their newest single, Inverse, taken from their upcoming second EP, Lie Through Your Teeth out on December 18 through Greyscale Records in Australia and Sharptone Records for the rest of the world.
Inverse follows the first single, Mindless which features Mikaila Delgado from Yours Truly.
Josh Walker discusses Inverse, “This song looks at self-destructive behaviour and the lies we tell ourselves to excuse harmful choices. It’s very easy to shift and project blame onto things around us when we’re facing a problem and ignore our own negative contribution to the issue. I’ve had an on-and-off problem with alcohol and this song voices the struggle between my own self-awareness and blissful ignorance.”
Lie Through Your Teeth is an EP based around the consequences when we lie to others, we lie to ourselves, and we in turn are lied to. The EP looks at a range of circumstances where the truth is withheld and how that affects everyone in the situation.
Stuck Out’s lyrics resonate like that familiar internal monologue we all shared when we discovered one simple truth: growing up is not all it’s cracked up to be. Navigating the ins and outs of complex relationships, while trying to find your place in a world that makes less sense by the day have become the cornerstone for the band’s lyrics, and they want to use every platform they can to help music lovers feel a little less alone. While some musicians play their cards quite close to their chest, Stuck Out have worn their heart on their sleeve since day one, and it has lead to them garnishing a keen and loyal fanbase.
The young four piece have made their way around Australia multiple times over the past few years off the back of their 2018 Greyscale Records debut EP You Won’t Come Home. They have supported acts such as As It Is, With Confidence, The Story So Far, and Senses Fail; enrapturing audiences with their blend of rock infused pop-punk that cuts through to a deeper layer of the human condition. The band can also now forever lay claim to playing the very first note ever played on a stage at the now staple of the Australian heavy music calendar, Good Things Festival.
2020 saw the band knuckle down to work on a follow up to their debut EP, and came out the other side with a very pointed EP titled Lie Through Your Teeth. Now the band & Greyscale Records look to the future as they add Sharptone Records to the team to help them push from one of the most exciting bands in Australia, to one of the biggest in the world.
PRE-ORDER LIE THROUGH YOUR TEETH EP HERE
LIE THROUGH YOUR TEETH TRACK LISTING:
01. Inverse
02. False Promise
03. Hollow
04. Mindless Featuring Mikaila Delgado From Yours Truly
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Then let’s get straight to it – tune into The Sound this Sunday to catch performances by:
- An explosive artist who has commanded attention worldwide selling out shows to record breaking audiences, just this week Tash Sultana was awarded over 1 Billion streams globally – an astounding achievement! Tash’s second album, the highly anticipated Terra Firma, will be released on February 19. The Sound captured one of Tash’s blistering performances this week, filmed in an airplane hangar in VIC’s Avalon Airport
- An absolute behemoth both live and in the studio, Perth’s Pendulum made huge waves globally with epic festival sets after 2005’s Hold Your Colour. Now, after a 10-year wait, the band are back with brand new music – including track ‘Nothing For Free’. Watch them perform it live on military island Spitbank Fort, in the English Channel, filmed for the band’s recent livestream
- We’re calling it: this is the hottest collab out there. On ‘Better Days’, Baker Boy and his good mate Dallas Woods have enlisted the incredible Sampa The Great, for an ultra-smooth number which threads Yolngu Matha, English and Bemba languages together. With our video filmed at VIC’s sacred Hanging Rock and in Botswana, this is one exclusive performance for The Sound you don’t want to miss!
- This week we’re honoured to share a sneak peek of Courtney Barnett’s upcoming global performance, From Where I’m Standing: Live from the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne. Tune into The Sound on Sunday to catch her performing track ‘Sunday Roast’. Tickets are on sale now for the full global livestream, which takes place on Thu 17 Dec and will be streamed in five time zones across the world
- With over 51 million global streams so far, two EPs, 2 x ARIA certified Gold singles, and a 2 x Platinum track in ‘Hotel’, Northern NSW singer Kita Alexander returns to the airwaves with her latest song, which she performs on The Sound this week – ‘Can’t Help Myself’. The track was co-penned with producer Dann Hume (Amy Shark, Matt Corby)
- For 18-year-old Budjerah, who grew up listening to the likes of Sam Cooke and The Clark Sisters, making music was an inevitability. Descended from the land of Bundjalung people (near Fingal Head, NSW), his debut single ‘Missing You’ was immediately added to triple j upon release, spending a week as the station’s #1 most played track. Stay tuned for his Matt Corby-produced upcoming debut EP
- Championed by everyone from BBC 6 Music, Beats 1, KEXP, CLASH and Aussie media galore is Tasmania’s best outfit: A. Swayze & The Ghosts. Their wildly anticipated debut album Paid Salvation is out now, and was recorded in Northcote, VIC, with producer Dean Tuza (These New South Whales, Stella Donnelly)
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Melbourne-via-Wellington four-piece Bakers Eddy have gifted us with ‘A Verry Merry Christmas’ – the season’s most pop-punk Christmas carol bound to bring the hectic vibes to the festivities ahead!
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“spill tab – aka Claire Chicha – is a multi-talented wonder” – DORK
“She is incredible” – Zane Lowe
The bilingual alt pop artist teamed up with principal collaborator marinelli on the gorgeous, enchanting piece of textured electronic pop ‘Santé‘, just as they did on acclaimed earlier singles; her break out single ‘Calvaire‘ is a dreamy pop song with R&B and electronic sensibilities and her second track is the mellow ‘Cotton Candy‘.
“This EP encompasses my entire year of 2020, it’s every spill tab song that has come out in the past 12 months, plus a new one that I co-produced with the homie marinelli, my main collaborator. I decided to name it Oatmilk ‘cause I am so goddamn lactose intolerant, so my lifeblood during quarantine has been Oatly and Chobani oat milk. I live on that shit, I‘ve probably been going through like 3 gallons a week.”
spill tab has recently featured as the cover artist on Spotify’s incredibly influential and respected alt/experimental pop playlist, LOREM, which has seen her songs streamed over 3 million times. She’s also been championed by the likes of mega tastemakers including Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and BBC Radio 1’s Jack Saunders.
Spill Tab’s Oatmilk EP is Available Now Via Dew Process
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Melbourne Music Week (MMW) has today revealed the hotly anticipated line-up for its extended summer program.
Returning for its 11th year, MMW’s program of free and ticketed events spans three months and, for the first time, features a 100 per cent local line-up of physical and digital events.
More than 330 artists will feature at more than 35 city locations and venues, across more than 200 events and sessions, with more artists and gigs to be announced in January 2021.
Melbourne Music Week–Extended is the first music festival to return to Melbourne, pioneering COVID-safe live music gigs for Victoria.
Supporting the recovery of the local live music industry is at the core of MMW–Extended, and this year’s event is the ticket to re-discovering the best of Melbourne’s live music scene as it returns.
Wominjeka (MMW Welcome) on Opening Night (Wednesday 9 December) will feature a Welcome to Country and City Wide Smoking Ceremony curated by Kee’ahn, including a performance by Aboriginal dance group Dijirri Dijirri and live programming across four city locations, with a show at Section 8 to follow.
The Music Victoria Awards will also take place on the Opening Night at Melbourne Recital Centre (and will be live-streamed) featuring a killer local line-up including Alice Skye, Elizabeth, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Simona Castricum.
Headline shows include ascending hip hop star, Baker Boy, at the Melbourne Recital Centre, iconic rock musician Adalita for a commissioned performance on the Grand Organ at Melbourne Town Hall, plus an audio visual exploration with Melbourne producers Ara Koufax and iconic DJ and academic Simona Castricum at the Capitol Theatre.
Fierce, tense post-punk trio, Cable Ties will lead The Forum’s Melbourne Music Week debut, while High Tension, stalwarts of the Melbourne metal scene, bring their blistering power to Max Watts in other headline events.
Melbourne Music Week–Extended is teaming up with some of the city’s favourite live music venues including Colour, Cherry Bar, Curtin, Section 8, Max Watts and more, to deliver Venue Presents featuring an ongoing line-up of gigs with local artists like Blake Scott, Banoffee, Mick Harvey, Private Function and Allysha Joy across the three-month festival.
A line-up of Outdoor Events will also form part of Melbourne Music Week–Extended, kicking off at The Third Day on Saturday 12 December with The Operatives Presents WE ARE 16, featuring Jordan Dennis, FOURA and more for an all-day party.
MMW–Extended Feature events include Techno Bingo (part seated party, part bingo) with a guest appearance from The Huxleys, a Vogue dance workshop with Kiki Dévine, and a new Wellbeing series featuring a Dog Day Afternoon with Henry Wagons (yes, you can bring your dog!) and Tai Chi classes.
The MMW Hub takes a back seat this year to instead focus on supporting Melbourne’s iconic music and cultural venues after months of lockdown, this year’s larger, longer and dispersed program across the summer months, offers greater flexibility for local artists, venues and businesses to be involved.
Melbourne Music Week is delivered by City of Melbourne, and thanks its valued partners for their support, including the Victorian Government, Ticketek, oOh!media, Beat, 3RRR and PBS.
Visit www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/mmw for tickets and to view the #MMW program.
Quotes attributable to City of Melbourne Lord Mayor Sally Capp:
“Live music is a critical part of Melbourne’s nighttime economy and it usually generates $1.7 billion each year for Victoria and supports over 42,000 jobs,” the Lord Mayor said.
Melbourne is the Live Music Capital of the World and the sector was hit hard by COVID-19 so we’re excited to bring music back to the city with a 100 per cent local lineup.
We’re proud to be bringing live music back to your favourite bars, clubs and pubs.
“We’re working closely with venues to make sure we can welcome music fans back safely and keep musicians, promoters, and hospitality workers in jobs.”
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Welfare Jazz out Jan 8 via YEAR0001, pre-order it here.
TRACKLIST
Ain’t Nice
Cold Play
Toad
The Old Dog
Into The Sun
Creatures
6 Shooter
Best In Show II
Secret Canine Agent
I Feel Alive
Girls & Boys
To The Country
In Spite Of Ourselves
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Legendary activist and Afrobeat originator, Fela Kuti, used his music to lament social injustices and political corruption in his native Nigeria. Fela’s legacy spans decades and genres, touching on jazz, pop, funk, hip-hop, rock, and beyond. While this impact can be felt in Nigeria and the entire world, it also greatly affected Fela’s son Femi and his son Made, both of whom carry his legacy as torchbearers for change. On February 5th, Partisan Records/Liberator Music will release two albums from Femi and Made, packaged together and appropriately titled Legacy +.
Femi and Made have each shared a new song from their respective albums. ‘Your Enemy’ taken from Made’s album For(e)ward turns a swirling and modern Afrobeat sound into an impassioned call for justice. On ‘Pà Pá Pà,’ taken from Femi’s album Stop The Hate Femi implores Nigerians to rail against the dishonesty of local politicians (“When government waste our time, government waste our life” he declares). ‘Pà Pá Pà’ is also accompanied by a music video filmed in Lagos and directed by Adasa Cookey. Listen/watch below:
Both albums that make up Legacy + are steeped in the tradition of Afrobeat invented by Fela, but each also offers their own unique vision. Femi’s Stop The Hate honours Fela in a traditionally fun, sharply political, and affirming way. Meanwhile Made’s For(e)ward is a modern and progressive freedom manifesto, pushing boundaries of the subgenre even further. Made also performs every instrument on his album!
Femi says, “I am very excited and happy because as a father I get to perform with my son on my album again, and I get to see him compose, arrange, and play all instruments on his own album. Most importantly, we get to release this project together. It is spiritually soothing and comforting to witness this chapter in my life.” Made adds, “I truly believe that once in a while we are fortunate enough to write stories for ourselves that we can look back on much later in our lives. This has been one of the greatest positive highlights of my life so far, both musically and transcendently. I’ve learnt so much from my father politically, socially, philosophically and musically that I know this lovely project is only the beginning of more beautiful things to come.”
The cover art for For(e)ward and Stop The Hate features portraits of Femi and Made done by Brooklyn-based artist Delphine Desane, whose work was recently featured on the cover of Vogue Italia.
Read more about the story behind Legacy + HERE in a new bio written by author + journalist Marcus J. Moore (NY Times, NPR, The Nation).
Femi got his start playing saxophone in his father’s band in 1979, eventually creating his own band, Positive Force. Over the next 30 years, Femi would amass worldwide acclaim as an ambassador of Afrobeat and many humanitarian organizations. Positive Force remains at the forefront of the Afrobeat movement, expanding the music’s vocabulary. Femi has earned multiple Grammy nominations, performed on some of the world’s most prestigious stages and festivals, and collaborated with iconic musicians across a wide array of genres, most recently Coldplay on their latest album Everyday Life.
Made grew up in the legendary New Afrika Shrine in Lagos, and spent much of his childhood touring with his father, playing bass or saxophone in Positive Force. Unlike his father, who didn’t formally study music, Made went to the famed Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London (the same place Fela studied, back when it was known simply as Trinity College), where he shared a musical environment with some of the most talented and disciplined musicians up-and-coming acts from the city’s underground scene.
Both Femi and Made have recently spoken out in strong support of anti-police brutality protests currently happening across Nigeria, which have subsequently led to the government dissolving SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad), a notorious part of the country’s police unit. Watch a clip HERE of Femi and Made taking to the streets.
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Bad Religion celebrates their forty years of making music with Decades; a four-episode online streaming event captured live at The Roxy Theatre in Hollywood, California. The band felt it important to commemorate the conclusion of 2020 as a strange moment in history when they reached that 40-year milestone.
The celebratory episodes will include live performance footage, exclusive interviews, and a peek at their rehearsals leading up to the taping of Decades. Singer & co-songwriter Greg Graffin discussed their motivation, “I can speak for the whole band when I say that we were so disappointed to not be able to tour this year. It is our fans and all those concerts we play each year that provide the life-force of Bad Religion. Decades allows new fans as well as those who were there at the beginning to get a rich overview of our entire career and witness the changes in songwriting and performance styles at each stage of our evolution.“
Bad Religion will participate in an accompanying live chat during the premiere of each episode. Show specific merchandise will be available for sale on the Decades NoCap Shows page.
The ’80s – Bad Religion performs songs from How Could Hell Be Any Worse, Suffer, and No Control. They discuss what it was like being young punks in a world of Pacman, Reaganomics, and Televangelism.
The ’90’s – Bad Religion performs songs from Against The Grain, Generator, Recipe For Hate, Stranger Than Fiction, The Gray Race, and No Substance. This decade cemented their position as one of the most influential and prolific bands of our time, but it didn’t come easy or without cost; the band discusses the growing pains and lessons learned.
The ’00s – Bad Religion performs songs from The New America, The Process of Belief, The Empire Strikes First, and New Maps of Hell. Returning home and charging forward into a new millennium, Bad Religion continued to awe with their prowess, releasing some of their most beloved material to date.
The ’10s – Bad Religion performs songs from The Dissent of Man, True North, and Age Of Unreason. The Covid-19 pandemic cut short their plans to tour in support of The Age Of Unreason and are now performing material never seen live before. The band discusses the gratitude they live with every day looking back on 40 years of being Bad Religion and the legacy they are still actively creating.
No Caps Shows will host Decades; a four-episode package will sell for $40 USD, individual episodes may be purchased for $15 USD. Tickets for Decades on sale now. Episodes will remain up for sale and viewing through the conclusion of the series and available until January 5th.
Decades episodes will premiere at 9:00 AEDT
December 13th: Bad Religion, the ’80s
December 20th : Bad Religion, the ’90s
December 27th: Bad Religion, the ’00s
January 3rd: Bad Religion, the ’10s
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Introducing rising star Finn Askew, an 19-year-old singer hailing from Somerset, England, with his latest single ‘Same Old Love’ alongside the announcement of his forthcoming debut EP, Peach. Listen HERE.
Just his third solo release, ‘Same Old Love‘ hones Askew’s brand of dexterous indie-pop, whose unadulterated catchiness disguises a nimble musicality in plain sight. Laying silky guitar lines over a buoyant, midtempo beat and with slight hints of Post Malone-like gravel in his voice, ‘Same Old Love‘ draws a line from the indie rock of his Dad’s record collection to the alt-R&B and hip hop production of Finn’s own influences to the DIY inclinations of fellow genre-averse contemporaries, Rex Orange County and Dijon.
Of ‘Same Old Love‘, Finn shares that: “Same Old Love is super unique I feel [and] experiments with a lot of sounds. I love the fact that the overall sound of the song is happy but the meaning is actually pretty sad, a kinda audio oxymoron.”
Enveloping the teenage angst of love, Finn continues to show his varied style, sound, and range which has impressed the likes of COLORS, Clash, Line of Best Fit, and Have You Heard. With his influences ranging from Nirvana and The Smiths to Frank Ocean and Travis Scott, Finn is a serendipitous amalgamation of creativity and talent. Naturally gifted and constantly absorbing elements from multiple sources, it was being born in a sleepy Somerset town that led him to big musical ambitions grounded by his humble nature.
Finn Askew encompasses hard work, self-awareness, and drive of the DIY generation, who control TikTok trends, fight for social justice, and a deep longing but easy execution of equality amongst their peers, no matter gender, race, or sexuality. These characteristics blend with a deep soul embedded in his music that feels wiser beyond his years, culminating in his forthcoming EP, Peach, set for release in 2021.
Speaking on his debut project, Finn says that he “wanted to create an EP that showed how creative I really am. I’m a kid from a small countryside town where there is no music scene at all but I’ve had so many musical influences from my mad diverse music taste. It’s been sick having no one to tell me what direction to take, I’ve just been left to my own device and I’m beyond thankful for that, it’s why my sound is so real. I wanted this EP to really capture me as an artist and what I can do. I can’t be put into one genre and that’s beauty of it.”
‘Same Old Love‘ by Finn Askew is out now via Polydor Records,
buy/stream it here.
PEACH EP
22 Jan 2020
Pre-order here.
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What is your name and role within Seabass?
My name is Annie, I sing, write all the songs and play guitar in SEABASS (as well as managed the band up until recently. We also have some answers peppered in from Ryan (guitar and makes all our records)
Where are you currently based?
Annie: We are TRAPPED in Adelaide. Nah, its pretty cool.
How did Seabass form?
Annie: myself, Kyrie and Flik were asked to play with Pussy Riot as their band in 2019… We thought after wed had a taste of the big stage together blasting through huge Ampeg bass rigs and Fender twins we better keep on going. Myself and Ryan had been playing together in another project so I brought us all together a few months after that! (Are Russian activist session musicians a thing? Apparently yes.
What’s been happening recently and how has your Covid experience been so far?
Annie: We’ve been working pretty hard on the release of our single ‘Burn’ as well as getting all our ducks in a row for our launch of our debut EP.
Ryan: Yeah, COVID has been disappointing but it gave us time to make the EP.
Your new single ‘Burn’ from your forthcoming debut EP ‘Always Kidding’ is out now, what influenced the sound and songwriting for Burn and the EP?
Annie: Burn pretty much just spilled out one morning… I was pretty wired about the mismanagement of last year’s bushfire season as well and one of the most outrageous acts of murder of an indigenous Australian at the hands of police. I was furious and desperate and so from that the song came.
Ryan: Influence wise there’s some 90s rock in there.
What does Burn mean to you?
Annie: Burn is a call to arms, a plea to not become complacent or to turn away. Burn is me desperately asking if others can see what I’m seeing and needing to do something about it.
How did you go about writing the music for Burn and the EP?
Annie: I have been sitting incubating some of these songs for a few years, some are definitely more recent. I just needed to figure out what they would be used for and how we would use them. They all started as fairly low-key kind of country inspired folk tunes but now (thanks to Ryan, Kyrie and Flik) they’re face melting indie-rock bangers.
Where and when did you record and who with?
Annie: We recorded everything at Ryan’s home studio which he has been operating out of semi-professionally for a little while. Ryan is responsible for recording, mixing and production.
Ryan: Along with any production ideas the band had along the way.
What can we expect from Always Kidding EP?
Ryan: We tried to get as much of a picture of the band as we could in an EP format. Each of us has a fairly wide range of skills. Some tracks are concise rocky belters others do their own thing and play by their own rules. We tried to get as much of our usual set down as possible in EP format and polish it through some extra production. It’s a power packed morsel.
Annie: In all honesty we’ve accidentally recorded an almost album… It’s a long EP or a short album. Extended extended play.
What programs/instruments did you use?
Ryan: Annie drafts her ideas up on Logic Pro then I record and mix on Pro Tools. It’s a pretty sanded rock config with two guitars, bass, drums and a bunch of BVs behind Annie’s huge vocals.
How did you approach the recording/production/mastering process?
Annie: We tracked everything at Ryan’s studio. I was pretty depressed at the time so I mostly just tracked when I was asked to and the rest of the time I just played Civilisation V whilst spilling dip and crackers on Ryan’s bed.
Ryan: We tracked some things completely separately and some stuff we tracked together. Vocals were done separately. Backing vocals were a riot because the band would all take turns at their part while taking turns lying down (This is what happens when you’re mixing console is in your bedroom). Annie and I had a feedback session where we boarded up the door of the studio and cranked our amps and grabbed an entire take of obnoxious noise over the whole EP – then I grabbed parts that sounded cool and mixed them in.
Annie: For some reason now Ryan no longer lives with those people…
Who are you listening to at the moment?
Annie: Well… Obviously Phoebe Bridgers and Fiona Apple… Oh and WAP on repeat… Honestly, if I can have a day where I hear WAP five times in a row, that’s a good day.
Ryan: Phoebe Bridgers and The BeeGees.
What do you like to do away from music?
Annie: I like gardening… I dabble in PlayStation, I’ve been playing Red Dead Redemption 2 and I finished the remastered Tony Hawk as well a while back.
Ryan: Nintendo Switch – Zelda and Mario Party with my housemates.
What’s planned for the remainder of 2020 going into 2021?
Annie: Crossing my fingers that we might be able to play a show in real life again soon and dropping the EP early next year.
Ryan: I’m going to finish putting together my new studio space and wait for the apocalypse to blow over.
When will the EP drop?
Annie: I think you’re like the second people we’ve told but February 17, 2021 and HOPEFULLY we get to have a launch show in Adelaide the week after that at Jive but stay tuned.
Favourite food and place to hangout?
Annie: Oh man, theres this spicy nut mix thing at my supermarket that I think I’ve eaten like 20kg of over the past few months. Ummm vegan Magnums. I like hanging out at Ryans house.
Ryan: Party pies and my studio.