ARTIST: Splurge
TITLE: The Cure For The Cure
LABEL: Popboomerang
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 48:02 min
SIZE: 68,9 MB
RIP DATE: Apr-20-2007
RELEASE DATE: Apr-20-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. When I Go To Sleep 04:32
02. Crystalline 04:04
03. She's Not The One 04:05
04. I Don't Feel It 05:09
05. Beautiful 04:49
06. Too Much Is Not Enough 04:29
07. Get Up and Watch TV 03:47
08. Numb 03:44
09. Hey Children 04:19
10. Is That You 04:13
11. The Cure For The Cure 04:51
Release Notes:
Inside a log cabin and just outside Hall's Gap,
Splurge got stuck into the songs that make up The
Cure For The Cure, the band's third album which will
be released in 2007 by PopBoomerang.
It wasnt the first time the band had taken up
residence there - two tracks from their debut were
recorded live in the big wooden room and the open
fire crackles behind the vocals of their second
release Heavy Weather.
But this time a makeshift studio was cobbled
together and this band headed for the hills of The
Grampians with a station wagon full of their
recording gear, vintage amps, guitars and effects.
"We wanted to make a record that came from some
other place," says songwriter Greg Williams. "More
than that - not just to sound to like it, but to be
in it. You get up there, you get your bunk, you get
your spot in the room, you get up every day and make
music. You get dug in."
Splurge don't exactly come from nowhere - MOJO
magazine heard the ghost of Lennon in the way "they
rock, they play it gentle, they deliver the hooks"
and in Greg's "expressive and emotionally direct"
voice, Jeff Jenkins of Inpress found echoes of Grant
McLennon.
While "the tunes come thick and fast", others
noticed "a keen eye for delicious pop treats, but
also an emotive honesty", an "innate ability to meld
melody and mood" and an "eclectic mix of styles that
displays confidence and ability" - while referencing
Dylan, The Church, Oasis ("Liam with a brain") and
Teenage Fanclub.
But for the band, it's just not what it sounds like
that matters. "All the songs pick up on the idea
that nothing is ever finished - by the time you find
the cure, you'll need a cure for that too. One thing
you can do is be in the moment - what it is to be in
this place at this time - and that's what we tried to
catch up in The Cabin."