Sunday, December 31, 2017

Friday, December 29, 2017

Sunday, November 26, 2017

"Bloodied" and "Because We Have Things In Common" now available on streaming platforms

Just to prove they actually exist, really. My early-20s foray into the depths of low-mids and wanting to make music that sounded how my brain was operating. I think I got that right (i.e. uncomfortable; a constant headache). When I listen back to sections of it now, part of me wishes I didn't bury them so much sonically and metaphorically - not even a proper master FFS - but I know at the time that's what I wanted. I was probably thinking the next album was a lot closer on the horizon than it turned out to be, although thematically it has remained part three of three following these two.

Monday, November 13, 2017

Streaming etc.

From today you can listen to "Wander", the first song released from the next album, on all the usual streaming services - Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Tidal, etc. etc.
Have a look at the fancy Songlink graphic here.

And here's the fancy Spotify embed thing here! (which I made extra tall):


There are a few more bits and pieces to come ahead of shows and the album.

Sunday, November 5, 2017

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

S.A.S - Bondage

The chorus. Sigh.

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

Wander


The World Won’t Listen” etc., so I don’t have a label and thus selling “Wander” to blogs, woke sites, radio stations, totally and so on and anyone was left to my own questionable devices.

“It is a reflection on the prospect of passing on a genetically prevalent mental illness to potential progeny, and its ongoing effect on finding someone to be close with,” I shat out in the press release.

I played it live for the first time on December 9th in 2015, on a Wednesday night at the Grace Darling upstairs. I was excited be playing with my friend Lux Ovarye again, as well as with the excellent Pillow Pro for the first time, and I had my own visuals (Ingmar Bergman’s Persona - Dodgy Sissysocks Cut) lined up. I was also looking forward to it because I knew I’d be playing this for the first time. It had been close to being ready for a few months, before I simply switched two of the synths around and the entire thing clicked for me.

I hadn’t quite nailed the words, however, and it was the first show since the arse had fallen out of my medication regime. Anxiety was dominating me when it had barely existed in the lead-up to my last show just three months earlier, and I managed to come down with a psychosomatically-induced belter of a head cold in the few days before it. It would set me a predictable challenge for each of my shows and recording sessions since then.

Report back
From a better place than your own
A failed hero

Oh, the centre of the world
Never got to know
Sitting on the floor
And then lying on the floor

A shiver charging down the family line

I don't want to know when
Or see it again
Just a painful yellow glow

Why should you be so surprised
That's its only a matter of time
'Til I'm
Picked up from the nearest street
Picked up and taken over the sea
Oh, you should know that time doesn't take sides

A shiver charging down the family line

What's yours will always be yours
And what's mine will always be mine
A shiver charging down the family line

I don't want to know when
Or see it again
It's painful but I have to know
A shiver charging down the family line

The rain brings down the rust
We see it as we drive past
Maybe just a reminder that there might be nothing for me in this life
A shiver charging down the family line

The rain brings down the rust
We see it as we drive past
Maybe just a reminder that there might be nothing for me in this life
A shiver charging down the family line

Apple Isle holiday pun

Two very pleasant surprises last week whilst down in Hobart - Ripe featured "Wander" in its "Best New Australian Music" playlist and Diamond Deposits named it its Track of the Week, with the lovely words, "lyrical poetry sung so sublimely and genuinely to immense synth licked melodies". This was all immensely flattering and also very unusual, considering roughly zero people know who I am.

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

Eucalypt is a Melbourne-based blog run by Lee Hannah and clearly has a lot of love and effort put into it - there is so much to discover in there wholly due to his great work.

I played a Sissy show with him a few years ago at Bar Open, with him playing as The Townhouses and it was very nice to hear from him over the past week. He was more than kind enough to include "Wander" in part five of the publication's "Inflorescense" series.


FYI, as well as on SoundCloud, "Wander" is now available to listen to and download from the Sissysocks Bandcamp. xx