With a soul-infused laid back air, the new single from Tasmania’s Verticoli puts on show their musical versatility and range of expression: a little different from their harder sound. It burns intensely like a slow fuse, a touch bluesy, and born on distant warm organ sounds that oscillates under the instruments. A wild guitar solo reaches back to the seventies while the melody soars into the firmament. The band says of the song:
The song came about thinking on past relationships and situations where two people are in different places in life and can’t seem to make it work, not for lack of affection or love but due to other factors. In my mind the song takes place at the Marion Bay Falls Festival. It’s one of two songs on Silverlinings inspired by the festival. Musically we were thinking about Tom Petty when we were putting the song together. He’s always been an inspiration and influence. Kurt Vile’s album ‘B’lieve I’m Goin Down’ was the soundtrack driving into the Falls Festival one year, so I felt that influence come through too.
This is a band that can create wide-screen cinematic visions. The accompanying video, evocatively filmed and directed by Isaac Sargeant in Hobart/nipaluna during the red-lit tinge of Hobart’s Dark Mofo Festival at dusk, captures the louche elements of the track – atmospheric and slightly mysterious:
‘See You Around’ is out now and available to stream and download here.
New album ‘Silverlinings’ is coming 6 November this year.
