Dave Graney And Clare Moore Announce New Album ‘Laburnum Of The Mind’
The duo have also shared the album’s first single, ‘Hits Are The Worst’.
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Dave Graney and Clare Moore are gearing up for the release of their latest album, Laburnum Of The Mind, out Friday 30 April.
Following the duo’s two 2024 albums, I Passed Through Minor Chord In A Morning and (strangely)(emotional), their forthcoming release is one Graney and Moore describe as a rock record.
“When we say ‘rock’, I guess we would be thinking of The Doors, Wire, Urge Overkill, Steely Dan, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Replacements, Pulp, Roxy Music, The Fall, The Blue Oyster Cult and those kinds of tones,” the pair explain.
“Those kinds of lyrical flights and suspensions. Bo Diddley and Latin beats and diminished and augmented chords. Expensive inversions. Flash stuff. Though there is also a lot of dumb, irrational, loose and goofy as well.”
Graney and Moore have also shared the album’s leading single, ‘Hits Are The Worst’. Inspired by The Doors and the late ‘60s sound, think bands like Brian Auger, Traffic and The Zombies, the track features Graney in fine form and is sure to please longtime fans of the duo.
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The first seven tracks of the record have been called “pretty upbeat” before the title track takes Laburnum Of The Mind in an interesting direction.
Recorded in Melbourne at Soundpark with Idge, the album was mixed by Graney and Moore and mastered by Idge. All instruments were played by the duo, bar two tracks featuring mistLY guitarist Stuart Perera.
And for those wondering where the album title came from? “Laburnum is a stop on the Belgrave train line from the CBD to the outer suburbs of South East Melbourne. Not a suburb, a stop,” says Graney and Moore.
The album will also be their first released on vinyl since the early ‘90s and will also be available digitally and on Compact Disc.
Tour dates to coincide with the album release will be announced in the near future
‘Hits Are The Worst’ by Dave Graney and Clare Moore is out now. The Laburnum Of The Mind will be released on Friday 30 April.
