ARTIST: Leadfinger
TITLE: The Floating Life
LABEL: Bang! Records
GENRE: Rock
TIME: 42:16 min
SIZE: 53,6 MB
RIP DATE: May-05-2007
RELEASE DATE: Jun-01-2007
WEBSITE: n/a
Track List:
01. I Went Looking 03:21
02. Edge Of Suburbia 03:57
03. Thin Lizzy 03:49
04. Boo Radley 04:25
05. Back In The 'burgh 02:57
06. So In A Hurry 04:03
07. The Sidney Way? 03:08
08. Bicycle Man 03:50
09. A Floating Life 03:31
10. The Philadelphia Ruse 05:36
11. The Music Had The Last Say 03:39
Release Notes:
Over the last 16 years Leadfinger has done his time
and written many awesome songs for great Australian
rock and power-pop bands like Brother Brick,
Asteroid B-612, The Proton Energy Pills, The Yes-Men
and Challenger-7 but with "the floating life" he set
out to do something totally different - all by
himself - writing, playing, engineering, recording,
producing and mixing "the floating life" from start
to finish by himself at his own dodgy home studio
under his house on the southern edge of Sydney. The
result is an album that is definitely unlike
anything else you are likely to hear this year,
bluesy and dark and at times electric with high
energy and powerful riffs, it veers into the melodic
territory of power-pop but with a noisier, harder
edge...still with lots of guitars and great songs
but with a fresh take on Aussie underground
rock'n'roll. "the floating life" sits on the
brilliant side of lo-fi and has been described as
equal parts Westerberg, Chilton, Kuepper and
Hitchcock with Fred 'Sonic' Smith along for the ride
on lead guitar!!!!! Stand out tracks are the driving
mayhem of "Edge of Suburbia", the 4/4 rockin fun of
"Thin Lizzy" (think of The Replacements - Alex
Chilton but this one is for Phil Lynott) and the
stark acoustic power of "a floating life" - a song
inspired by the work of Australian underground poet,
John Forbes. "the floating life" has plenty of great
songs with its main themes revolving around the
highs and lows of life as a rock'n'roller on the
margins of the music world, it is sure to surprise
and endear itself to anyone with ears, so take the
punt and check it out. Vinyl lovers will be happy as
the amazing 12" gatefold also comes with an extra
track that doesn't appear on the CD.
The release of "the floating life" has prompted
Leadfinger to put together a tough new 3 piece band
to promote the record, with Steve O'Brien
(ex-Tumbleweed and Monstrous Blues on Bass) on Drums
and Wayne Stokes (ex-Thumlock) on bass. The new
Leadfinger band have already begun recording what
should be a high-energy masterpiece as follow up to
"the floating life" and they will be coming to your
town soon.