The sun always shines brighter when we are blessed with the languid, louche sounds of Dave Graney and Clare Moore, and full strength polaroid shades are required for the new single ‘Hits Are The Worst’ as the dynamic duo announce a new album on the way.
‘Hits Are The Worst’ is delivered with Graney’s trademark dulcet tones that transport you, as always, to some dark velvet-lined smoke-filled cabaret lounge with Absynthe-filled shot glasses spilling over with regret and romance. Graney’s delivery is as always burnished with an arched brow and a sardonic grin: incredibly cathartic and amusingly theatrical.
The accompanying video is filmed by Graney himself and Will Hindmarsh aka Twinkle Digitz, and captures the duo in flagrante delicto as they perform with their usual enigmatic flair:
Such tasty and satisfying fare. You can listen to the track here.
The new album, ‘Laburnum of the Mind’, is out on 30 April and is, according to Graney and Moore, a rock record. They explain:
When we say “rock”, I guess we would be thinking of The Doors, Wire, Urge Overkill, Steely Dan, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Replacements, Pulp, Roxy Music, The Fall, The Blue Oyster Cult, and those kinds of tones. Those kinds of lyrical flights and suspensions. Bo Diddley and Latin beats and diminished and augmented chords. Expensive inversions. Flash stuff. Though there is also a lot of dumb, irrational, loose and goofy as well.
All instruments are played by Graney and Moore with mistLY guitarist Stuart Perera guesting on two tracks. Recorded in Melbourne at Soundpark with Idge, the album was mixed by Dave Graney and Clare Moore and mastered by Idge.
And the title?
Laburnum is a stop on the Belgrave train line from the CBD to the outer suburbs of South East Melbourne. Not a suburb, a stop.
To coincide with the album’s release, Dave Graney and the mistLY will hit the road for an extensive Australian tour. Keep an eye out for tour dates.
