Easy / House Music
What:
Easy / House Music
Who:
Mum Smokes
On:
Sensory Projects / Inertia
Related links:
MySpace, 'At the Gate' video
Launch:
June 26 at Curtin Bandroom
with Fabulous Diamonds and White
Woods
Life's vicissitudes, dream encounters, emotional confusion and feelings of melancholic joy are steadfast themes in pop music, but so rarely transposed with the uncanny, true-to-experience ring managed by much-loved local outfit, Mum Smokes. In the same way a good friend's company and conversation can coax personal realisation after realisation and set your mind to thinking extra lucidly about time's weird ways, so too can the unforced, dead-honest songs of this preternaturally gifted group. Never forcing a point or quick to trade meanings, Mum Smokes' approach is to marvel, not to master - working first as melodic salve, second as entertainment.
Easy / House Music is the sprawling, double-album follow-up to 2005's hallowed Railroads, Chasms and Fantasies debut that fans dared wish for from this band. All four members share the writing distinctively, often track-by-track, meaning ensured variety and the futile-fun chance to play favourites - is it Jon the Gypsy Joker, Julian King of Time, Karl the Earth Sprite or Space Commander Justin? Up and downcast tunes run a gamut of styles, but always with rich, acoustic-leaning arrangements that bloom with repeated plays and lyrics that'll keep you awake; mad for sadness. An important Australian band to look forward to remembering fondly.
Release: Album
To Cure: A broken heart
Keywords: Mum Smokes
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