Following the recent release of his new album Sensationalized, Sydney-based artist Wade Jackson shares the accompanying video to his lead single ‘Nightlife’. The visuals come ahead of Jackson’s album launch at Sydney’s Moshpit this Thursday 14 January, with special guests and Broke Stone Records’ label mates Lewis Goldmark & Magnetic Heads. The album launch will also be live streamed on Thursday 14 January at 8PM AEDT via Zenn. Live stream passes are on sale now here.
Jackson began predominantly worked in music theatre and writing screen plays. Given things weren’t going so well he decided to use his musical chops to write his debut album Goodbye Rain, Hello Sunshine in 2012 which he later recorded with producer Liam Judson (Belles Will Ring, Cloud Control to Major Tom, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Dream). Touring Australia widely, he took a break to write Whiskey Alpha Delta Echo in the fall of 2013, again co-producing with Judson. The album was picked up on a licensing deal from a Spanish label generating a European tour.
After returning from Europe, with wind in his sails and sales he started work on the follow-up, Crown & Cathedral which unfortunately was disliked immensely by his Spanish fan base citing “there’s too much synthesiser”, a mistake that Jackson did not learn from and continued to use on the follow up album, The Ghost Searches Beside Me. The LP was recorded and mixed by Jackson with his new set of skills he was forced to learn after going broke from investing all of his money into a music documentary he made with friend and well known Australian band manager and industry stalwart, Greg Carey. Waiting – The Van Duren Story was screened around the world and well received.
Now, Broken Stone Records are thrilled to have released Jackson’s fifth album titled Sensationalized.
As Jackson details of the album “Sensationalized was written and recorded during the Covid-19 lockdown in Sydney. The theme is based around a fictional complete city breakdown, exaggerated reality. An almost apocalyptic, dystopian city with different scenarios played out by different characters in a diary/self reflection style.
This was also reflected in the music I was listening to: Joe Walsh – Barnstorm, Joni Mitchell – Hejira, Lewis Baloue – L’amour, Peter Koppes – Manchild or Myth. All these records for me have a real reclusive feel and felt comforting whilst alone during lockdown.”
Lewis Goldmark is the new project from Belles Will Ring frontman, Liam Judson. This time we have chilly guitars, glowing synths, along with Judsons’ unique melodicism all coming together to form dystopian lullabies.
Magnetic Heads is the multi-member project of JD Miller. Once upon a time a collection of jangling 12 string pop ballads, now songs about game theory and coming of age, the loss of youth and the power of community delivered with a straight face and a brutalist cold wave aesthetic.
Listen / Buy / Download Wade Jackson – Sensationalized: https://
UPCOMING SHOWS
Wade Jackson ‘Sensationalized’ Album Launch + Live Stream
with special guests Lewis Goldmark & Magnetic Heads
Thursday 14th January at 8PM AEDT
Moshpit, Erskineville – SOLD OUT
Live stream passes on sale now here.
