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HOLY HOLY – ” When The Storms Would Come ” Best Albums Of 2015

Posted: December 19, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Holy Holy started out as a song writing side-project, Timothy Carroll and Oscar Dawson had separate and varied musical careers, the duo started writing together when their paths crossed in Europe. The demo’s they created became “When the Storms Would Come”, a hugely successful debut release, and one of the more popular Australian albums in 2015.

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Recorded largely to tape, the album is 10 tracks of elegant song writing, with warm tones, beautiful harmonies and some epic guitar solo’s that give a nod the bands’ love of Neil Young and Pink Floyd. The sound is modern, yet heavily influenced by the artists and sounds from an earlier time. Joined by a regular backing band, the duo has barely been off the road since the album was released, including tours of the UK and Europe. A fantastic live act, they will no doubt gain even more fans when they join Vance Joy on the road early in 2016

HOLY HOLY – ” Sentimental And Monday “

Posted: November 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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“Sentimental & Monday” is the brand new single from Holy Holy’s forthcoming album “When The Storms Would Come” Carroll, from Brisbane, and Melbournian guitarist/composer Oscar Dawson initially crossed paths as volunteer English teachers in Southeast Asia. They reconnected in 2011 while both again leading transient lives in Europe. Carroll, an acclaimed singer/songwriter, was living in Stockholm. Dawson had transplanted to Berlin with his then band Dukes Of Windsor. When Dawson traveled to Sweden, Carroll asked him to assist with some songs. They ended up with a “suite of demos”. The pair continued collaborating back in Australia. “At that stage we weren’t even really sure what the project was going to be,” Carroll admits. “We were just feeling our way through it.” Regardless, the duo began penning darker, more intense material. The newly anointed HOLY HOLY issued the psychedelic, if foreboding, Impossible Like You as their first single,

In 2014 the “project” morphed into a full live band, enlisting drummer Ryan Strathie (ex-Hungry Kids Of Hungary) and bassist Graham Ritchie (Airling’s collaborator). Their reclusive producer, Matt Redlich (Ball Park Music, Emma Louise, The Trouble With Templeton), also joins them as a “special guest”, hiding behind a Prophet-08 synth. “He’s a bit like our Nigel Godrich kinda character,” Dawson quips.

HOLY HOLY’s “music tragics” bonded over Neil Young (and Crazy Horse), Crosby, Stills & Nash, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd and Dire Straits, as well as contemporary acts like Midlake, Band Of Horses and Grizzly Bear. And these myriad influences have fed into When The Storms Would Come. Indeed, though HOLY HOLY cherish “old, classic songwriting”, that nostalgia is juxtaposed with a modern aesthetic. In the studio the band recorded live onto Redlich’s two-inch tape, configured to 16-track. “You get this really warm, saturated colour,” Dawson enthuses. However, eschewing rigid traditionalism, HOLY HOLY occasionally utilised digital post-production. Redlich encouraged them to follow their instincts in determining the best approach, song by song. “He’ll be ballsy with his decisions,” Dawson explains. “He will make the decision in the moment as to what the sound is supposed to be… It makes the recording a whole lot more exciting because, as you’re recording, you’re hearing it as it’s gonna sound.” As such, When The Storms Would Come – led by the jagged single History – sounds “natural”. Dawson holds that HOLY HOLY’s unique sound has evolved into something that’s amplified, or “weighty” – their sonorous, sublime melodies augmented by “stronger, more powerful guitars and bigger vocals” and rhythmically-dense drumming.

HOLY HOLY – ” A Heroine “

Posted: October 19, 2015 in MUSIC
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Holy Holy are one of the year’s breakout stars in their native Australia, with debut album ‘When The Storms Would Come’ reaching No. 11 on the ARIA charts. A sensation Down Under, the band’s taut, emotive, and impeccably crafted songwriting was enhanced by the recording techniques used on their debut.

“House of Cards” is taken from Holy Holy’s EP The Pacific Laid down on two-inch tape, sessions were overseen by Matt Redlich and gave resulted in a fresh, natural sound throughout. Due to be released in the UK on October 30th, here is  a new live version of ‘A Heroine’. Stirring, soaring songwriting, the live performance has an added sense of grit, with each flaw helping to spur the song on further.

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