Spookyland — Beauty Already Beautiful (Inertia)
Haunted, self-indulgent yet “incredibly alluring”, Beauty Already Beautiful would best be heard while “driving alone in some unnamed desert in the middle of the night, driving hard like someone or something is after you”. They “push against the tide” of “fractured multi-faceted” music popular currently, with “an elegant, melancholy, pompous, brash entry in modern guitar music”.
Sydney outfit Spookyland have been busy lads in the past couple of years, showcasing their wares overseas at SXSW and rocketing onto the Lollapalooza stage in 2015. Now they’ve consolidated their rise with a debut full-length Beauty Already Beautiful, The beginning touches of Beauty Already Beautiful were put together while Spookyland engaged in their American sojourn of Lollapalooza, visiting Conor Oberst’s Nebraskan studio to plant the album’s creative seeds.
The album captures the band’s idiosyncratic style, lyrics steeped in metaphor delivered with an uninhibited vocal style – all backed up by solid rock ‘n’ roll chops. First taste of the album came in the form of singles ‘Bulimic’, ‘God’s Eyes’ and ‘Big Head’.
After joining Gang Of Youths on their sold-out tour last month, Spookyland will launch their debut EP with in Sydney early May
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