Third single from the Nipaluna/Hobart band Silver Fleet Ships, signed to the tremendous Meanjin/Brisbane label False Peaks Records, and things are just getting exponentially better. ‘Do Nothin” continues the post punk sparseness filled with atmosphere and a stately grace that typify this band. The track draws in elements of the deep southern Antarctic chill, coupled with melodies and delivery that are like a comforting burning fire in the hearth.
A motorik beat introduces the track creating a driving thrum throughout, while the vocals are cold and distant, but slowly and surely the other instruments seep up through the floorboards with a throbbing bass and soothing synth bedrock with a hint of rippling guitars. The vocals become impassioned, before a sky-scraping chorus rips the soundscape asunder.
The lyrics are a bleak and vivid expression of dissonance and ambivalence:
There are no more thoughts
They have all dissolved
In the back of my mouth
Where the pills go in
And I hold my pills close
Hold em close to my chest
Cos I feel nothing
And I do nothing
I do nothing
Always at the edges are blips and pops that scatter the field, the song twists and turns like a silken veil in a tornedo, never cliched or obvious in arrangement as the track ranges across a vast terrain before slowly fading away in a wash. It’s an epic track: dark and haunting.
‘Do Nothin” is out today and available to download and stream through the link above and via all the usual sites. Silver Fleet Ships’ debut album ‘Before Never, After Forever’ will be released on 10 October, 2025 through False Peak Records. You can pre-order through the link below.
Led by Spiro Noutsatos (also in follow., previously a member of Teens/Slaughterhäus Surf Cult), Silver Fleet Ships have a strong DIY recording ethos, an extension of Spiro’s work as a recording & mixing engineer for other Tasmanian bands (Dvrkworld, Slaughterhäus Surf Cult, Nice House, Legal Noise).
Live, Silver Fleet Ships are Spiro Noutsatos, Mathew Olivier, Ryan Lynch and Jason Graham.
Feature Photograph: Rohan Sharma
