Friday, August 27, 2021


“Grace” is loosely available via radio and SoundCloud ahead of the release of the album, Slink Away, next Friday. xx

Friday, July 16, 2021


All the waiting in the world won’t change the music, nor anything else, really. It is time to end this long shitty and bewildered period of my life, and start a new long shitty and bewildered period of my life. ✨💫

My next album, Slink Away, will be out on September 3rd.

Friday, May 21, 2021

"Augsburg" is out today.

This video is the creation of the excellent (and patient) Ursula Woods together with cinematographer Jacon Collings.

Dana Endelmanis plays Gill Person, EWAH is the Performer, and Arabella Barwick did hair and make-up. Jethro Pickett was the assistant. The video was shot in Hobart, Tasmania.

For all the difficulties this song brought me (or, that I brought on myself using this song), now, I have this beautiful video made by these very talented people who gave everything in their art and performance to accompany it.

“Augsburg” is taken from the forthcoming album “Slink Away”, produced by James Cecil at Super Melody World and mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio.

Thursday, April 29, 2021

"Augsburg" out on May 21st


I am very happy (and relieved) to announce that “Augsburg”, from the forthcoming album Slink Away, will be released on Friday, May 21st.

“Augsburg” is about looking for things in the wrong places, and making the same mistakes again. It encapsulates the album in a single song.

I’ve been sitting on (and stewing over) these songs and this album too much and for far too long. I hope there is something to be found in it all. xx

Thursday, October 1, 2020

2020 Remasters of "Bloodied" and "Because We Have Things In Common"


In the lead-up to my new album coming out, I have remastered my first two albums, Bloodied, and Because We Have Things In Common. I recorded these very haphazardly mostly over 2008 to 2010, and then somewhere between “more Grouper” and “self-destructive” fed nearly every track through an effects box. And, for no reason, I never actually got them mastered. David Walker at Stepford Audio, who has mastered the new record, has now gone over these; my early-20s forays into the depths of indiscernible low-mids.

They will be available on Spotify, Bandcamp, and all other streaming services from this Friday, October 2nd.

These are parts one and two of three of the story arc that the new album will be part of.

Monday, January 28, 2019

Saturday, January 12, 2019

Friday, December 7, 2018

"I'll Die One Day" and the video



“I’ll Die One Day” was born out of several things that happened over two-ish years up until late 2010. The title preceded the song itself, but directly informed it. I had endured a (first) mental breakdown two years earlier, and throughout that had handled poorly what I could control. In an incredibly humid North Carlton bedroom in the depths of December the bones of the song came together over a few hours, although the bassline final version of both the lyrics and percussion would come a few years later (it has taken this long for the song and the album to be completed).

Initially, the lyrics and the music were a poor attempt at emulating Gorillaz (and it didn’t take many tweaks to move it away from that territory). I’m a sucker for anything Damon Albarn does and Plastic Beach had been played constantly throughout a dour year (and I’d just seen them live with my Mum earlier that month).

Those first lyrics were still informed by the title - which itself only existed in the Logic session file name - it isn’t mentioned word-for-word in the song - but it wasn’t until they were reworked maybe three or four years later in a way that I felt reflected the title as I wanted.

At that time, as a bewildered 22-year old I felt my life was a humiliating series of failed, awkward social exchanges, and leaving of parties in disgrace (a perennially updated feature-length blooper reel). I had no idea what I was doing professionally, and all the while being on the way to not producing or mastering my first two albums in any way that I should have. It was and is the same tattered, stained string of mistakes made and that I make over and over again. Since then I’ve had sustained better periods, but invariably those are bookended by lapses, as if jumping between worldlines.

Over time I would more often literally walk away from these exchanges and say to myself “well, I’ll die one day” as a grim reassurance of better (???) things to come (there was nothing pre-emptive about it, but the trick was that the line gave it a sense of inevitability, however fleeting). I was self aware and self deprecating enough to say it with a small (maybe wry) smile, at least in my mind, and a great deal of facetiousness. But over time - in the year or so afterwards, and again in recent years as it regained relevance when it came time to work on it in the studio - those jokes had worn thin, and the core meaning behind it had grown and sapped away that smile.

The video I made came from early attempts to put together a new visual component for my live set. Since a December 22, 2015 show at Public Bar, I’d disgraced the Ingmar Bergman film Persona with my own rude cut to accompany my haphazard live arrangement. The last time I’d played without visuals had been a couple of weeks earlier, on December 9 at The Grace Darling. That night I was genuinely sick (not the faux-sick I have been at every show since) and barely scraped through a set (including the first time I played Wander), bathed in unflattering daylight savings time lighting and with my blush propulsion system turned up to 11.

As fate (or whatever) would have it, the last time I would use the Persona cut would come at the same venue as its debut - now known as The Last Chance Rock and Roll Bar - on November 28, and the first time I would play without them would be at The Grace Darling in recent weeks. This wasn’t intentional, but rather due to a wildly unforeseen projector malfunction, very nearly three years to the day after that shocker on the same stage. For all the comfort that the visuals can bring to how I feel the set appears, that most recent show felt to be one of my better performances, particularly after I had put in a rusty shocker at Last Chance.

That most recent show had been pinned down as the last time I would use Persona, to be replaced with a patchwork of creative commons and public domain footage from the Prelinger Archives. Parts of that became the “I’ll Die One Day: video for a few reasons. I has been intent on releasing the song late in 2017 either way, and after cracking the shits about the state of Sissysocks in general late last year, amid a broader mental breakdown of sorts more recently, decided it was time to put it out while the rest of the album was being finished.

Bit by bit I began collating a video more purposefully for the song. The found footage that makes up the video is all very deliberately placed, and all very deliberately selected from a fuckload of videos I viewed that form a resource I couldn’t believe I hadn’t tapped into more by now. While I continue to jump from chemical stability to lapses, the world feels like it does the same. It’s just a simple part of growing up, but it’s strange and unsettling to shed any notion that some particularly awful chapters in your own and broader human history belong in the past.

Thursday, December 6, 2018

Friday, November 23, 2018


Poster by the excellent Evelyn Ida Morris.

Monday, November 19, 2018

"I'll Die One Day" now up on streaming services

"I'll Die One Day", the second song to be released from the next album, is now available on all the usual streaming services - Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, etc.
Links to all here via songlink.

Tuesday, November 13, 2018

I'll Die One Day


Nearly two years after the release of the first song from my next album, here is the second. For a whole host of reasons it has taken a long time and the album is still not quite finished. It is being produced by the patient James Cecil at the excellent Super Melody World studios, and mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio.

Thank you so much to Happy Mag for premiering the song and its video, which you can read, listen to and watch here.

"I'll Die One Day" will be available on streaming services from Monday, November 19th.

The song’s title comes from a line I would jokingly say to myself as I repeatedly made (and, uh, make) a lot of the same mistakes in day-to-day life. Sometimes those things can appear a little funnier on the recount but the jokes gradually wear thin, and the mundane and the pedestrian can break things down over time as much as landmark events.

All of the Marches
That we thought that we
Won’t be forced to search to find
What was written for me
But lost in time

They got me now
A year now
On an apocalypse night
In an apocalypse town
Where I want to be –
I’ll go down
With the best of you all

They got me now
A year now

All so the club can have its lights on,
The cranes remain.
Something to be done,
Something to be up for,
Something to watch.

They got me now
A year now
They got me now
A year now

I’ll go, be…
Be.

Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Monday, April 30, 2018