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Underneath

    After stripping back the layers to expose their own vulnerabilities, hopes, fears and passions, Floodlights emerge with their third album, 'Underneath'.

    Written amidst extensive touring of the UK and Europe, Australia and the US, Underneath was shaped by a surreal period in each members’ lives - full of firsts, exploring new places, playing their biggest gigs and festivals yet. Despite the transience of their new life on the road, the writing process proved a starkly intimate time marked by quiet, shared moments of contemplation. The songs that emerged represent a process of reckoning, catharsis and growth within the group, fusing the incisive societal reflections they are renowned for with more personal meditations on grief, memory and place; ultimately giving shape to myriad emotions and experiences that linger beneath the surface. Through their enveloping alt-rock soundscapes Floodlights paint a metamorphosis in motion on 'Underneath', while sweepingly exploring, at its core, what it means to be human.

    TRACK LISTING

    1. Alive (I Want To Feel)
    2. Cloud Away
    3. JOY
    4. Buoyant
    5. Horses Will Run
    6. This Island
    7. Can You Feel It
    8. Melancholy Cave
    9. Suburbia
    10. The Light Won’t Shine Forever
    11. 5AM

    Floodlights

    From A View

      ‘From a View’ is the debut album from Melbourne’s Floodlights.

      'From a View' explores themes of identity, personal cross-roads and the misuse of power.

      The bands first exploration into proper studio recording with a well regarded sound engineer. It was recorded over two days onto a 24 track tape machine at Head Gap studios in Preston in November.

      Floodlights are made up of members Louis Parsons, Ashlee Kehoe, Joe Draffen and Archie Shannon. They present a distinctly Australian perspective, with a shambolic, catchy sound that melds 80s Indie-Rock rock with 90s New Zealand jangle-pop.

      Following a tour of Australia’s East Coast in October last year the band began working on “From a View”. The songs were arranged and performed as a band, but often began from Louis or Ash presenting ideas to the group and building on them from there. The songs themselves were written over various points in the bands short career, yet come together very fittingly to show their distinct sound.

      Lead single Thanks For Understanding is about two lives going in different directions. It describes the complicated process of growing apart from someone, even though you still care for them.


      STAFF COMMENTS

      Laura says: Great debut album from this Melbourne four piece. They have a distinctly Antipodean sound, that draws on 80s and 90s indie rock with a nod to Flying Nun records in it's prime.

      TRACK LISTING

      Side A: 
      1 Water's Edge
      2 Matter Of Time
      3 Walk Away
      4 Don't Pick That Scratch
      5 Glory Of Control
      6 Thanks For Understanding

      Side B:
      7 It Was All Going So Well
      8 Tropical Fun
      9 Proud And Well
      10 Shifting Shadows
      11 Happiness


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