Slumberjack are again! Share collab packed lure EP

Perth lads Slumberjack have returned to launch a lure infused EP stuffed with loads of massive stage fashion vitality moments.

The Sarawak EP announce comes off the again of an bold Aus + NZ tour lined up in March involving some whopping exhibits at The Enmore, 170 Russel and extra.

To have fun the lengthy awaited for launch of this 5 monitor bangin’ challenge, the dudes talked us by way of the influences behind every monitor that function some nice cameos from the likes of Machine Age, Troyboi and Claire Ridgely.

1. Daggers w/ Machine Age

For the longest time, we’ve needed to deliver gritty rock components into the digital music realm and we lastly discovered the best particular person to assist us pull it off. Machine Age confirmed us a demo sketch on the piano and we immediately fell in love with it – there’s lots of actual emotion behind the lyrics. We deliberated on this monitor for a very long time and even had a whole orchestrated bridge part that didn’t make it into the ultimate launch (however we’ll be showcasing that on the SARAWAK Tour).

We really ended up bringing in influences from many extra genres than simply rock – among the components that did find yourself making it in had been the Indian Tabla, gospel fashion choir vox, reside recorded drums, old style analogue synths and clearly Adrian’s wonderful guitar work. It’s a excessive vitality stomper.

02. Athena

We’ve all the time been followers of TNGHT and their fashion completely was the primary affect for this report. It’s fascinating how just a few easy components put collectively in the best manner can sound even larger than probably the most jam-packed tracks. Athena is the fourth installment of our ‘god’ named data and its very becoming that Athena is a goddess of warfare. There’s not an enormous quantity to be stated concerning the course of on this one, it was a traditional producer curled up on the sofa with a laptop computer and headphones – generally you simply get into the zone and magic occurs. I feel we’re going to finish our reside present on this monitor.

03. Hide & Seek feat. Claire Ridgely

This monitor simply took this longest to complete on the entire EP; it’s been nearly three years since we first began it. There have been numerous totally different variations and numerous vocals however we couldn’t be happier with the way it ended up. We are likely to make issues overly difficult and it took a very long time for us to have the ability to say goodbye to among the concepts we put into this monitor and strip it again to the weather that mattered. It’s all the time a tug of warfare however I feel the rawness we achieved, particularly within the intro, was so price it. I nonetheless get goosebumps generally when Claire’s vocal is available in, I don’t know the way she does it.

04. Solid w/ Troyboi

Troy has perpetually been an inspiration and after we joined him for his North American bus tour in 2017 we knew we needed to work on one thing. This monitor travelled the world, beginning within the cramped situations on the bus, going to Indonesia and being completed up on the street in China. I feel individuals would most affiliate this monitor with the old-fashioned SLUMBERJACK fashion, we tried to inject as a lot bounce as bodily doable into it.

05. Closure w/ Ekali

The opening sounds you hear on this music are layered with recordings we made in SARAWAK of some tribal drums we got here throughout. They’re fairly distinctive in that they’ve lots of tonal high quality however the pitches don’t observe any type of scale in order that they add fairly an atonal character to the monitor. We additionally used some ambient beds we recorded within the jungle to fill out the environment and provides this one a grand ‘open’ feeling. Originally titled ‘Falls’ as a result of we began it across the time of Falls pageant, it took on a brand new life after we realized it type of reminded us of an enormous waterfall. In SARAWAK we needed to go and go to this waterfall that Morgan had been to in his childhood to see if we may report something there for the monitor however we ended up getting caught in a torrential thunderstorm out in the course of the jungle – that complete story is in “>Episode 4 of the SARAWAK docu-series so test it out.

We really did two tracks this yr with Ekali, one for his EP (‘Helios’), and this one for our EP. Really pleased with how each turned out they usually’re such totally different types from one another, this one is the right nearer for the EP.

You can catch them on tour this March throughout Aus.

Friday eight March – The Gov, Adelaide
Saturday 9 March – Metro City, Perth
Friday 15 March – 170 Russell, Melbourne
Saturday 16 March – Enmore Theatre, Sydney
Friday 22 March – The Studio, Auckland
Saturday 23 March – The Tivoli, Brisbane