"Through repetitive vocal mantras, layered synths and magnificently textured instrumentation, the raw and reflective debut sings listeners into a future version of themselves."
"The more I talk about this record, the more I’m realising loss plays almost an equal role to love.
"It's not that everything is painless, it’s that pain is not a bad thing.”
"There's a point where finally you get to release this creature, beast, baby, call it what you will, out into the wild wide world and see what happens. Well, thank fuck that time has finally arrived.”
“Well it’s like, we’re a band, we talk, we have different dynamics, we do the breaths, and then we go on stage and suddenly it feels like we are now on a dragon. And we can’t really talk because we have to steer this dragon.”
“It grew into a Springsteen-esque Australiana rock thing nodding at The Go-Betweens, Midnight Oil and Paul Kelly”.
"I've kind of accepted that this might be the best thing that I'm ever part of for the rest of my life. And that's fine.”
“I wrote what I needed to hear, as I’ve always done.”
“My hope would be that anyone listening to ‘Hop Up’ feels lighter at its conclusion than they did at its start, and I hope the enthusiasm I feel for it translates.”
“I am who I am and I sound how I sound, and I’m not really interested in going in like some kind of magician to try to make it sound any different.”
