Beloved Melbourne group Snowy Band are back with their new album, Age Difference. Each song ambles through big themes like religiosity, existentialism, fear of regret, time and love – but all find a triviality in the intensity. This theme pervades Snowy’s songwriting and continues into the project’s third album.
The group had been playing these songs live for some time prior to recording, so although there was a conscious move away from the sonic structures and sounds that were characteristic of Snowy Band’s previous material, these songs feel road-worn and familiar in a way that is unique to a band that share a deep sense of connection. Snowy Band writes songs in search of musical and lyrical open-endedness, self described by Snowy as ”written for the activity of writing and recording”.
Recorded by Snowy at home and with help from the band, each song was lovingly and painstakingly patched together from placeholder demos which over time become the songs as they are now.
Says Snowy: “It’s an album all about time –
Time zones.
Time difference.
Reminiscing.
The perception of time.
Taking your time.
Time in reverse.
Going out of time.
THIS time.“
Snowy Band is the project of Melbourne-based, Wagga Wagga-born musician Liam “Snowy” Halliwell (The Ocean Party, Popfilter, Good Morning) formed with bandmates and familiar faces Nat Pavlovic (Dianas, Jen Cloher), Emma Russack and Dylan Young (Way Dynamic). This is the first offering since 2021’s Alternate Endings: writing for the new album began in the immediate aftermath, but it’s a departure from the first two records stylistically and thematically, a continuation but existing in an alternate timeline.
Release: 19th July, 2024, Blossom Rot Records