Full Flower Moon Band Team Up with Nicholas Allbrook for New Single ‘Harder Man’
‘Harder Man’ is the followup to ‘Scene’, FFMB’s recent collab with New York’s Gustaf.
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Full Flower Moon Band (FFMB) keep on delivering the goods, with the band’s latest single, ‘Harder Man’, a glam rock supernova featuring POND’s Nicholas Allbrook.
The combination of frontwoman Babyshakes Dillon’s hypnotic vocals and Allbrook’s soaring falsetto over the groovy guitar riff is a match made in heaven.
“I see the song as a scene on a dancefloor of two men realising that they are attracted to each other - a sexual awakening,” says Dillion. “Explaining that to Nick was pretty funny, saying point blank that the lyric ‘I’m a harder man from love’ is a sexual innuendo. There is just no professional way to say it.”
Allbrook’s first impressions of the song? “Bad ass, short, quite homoerotic,” adding, “It’s awesome. This song's great. It’s really different from everything else I’ve heard from the band. Kate wanted me to be in it, I don’t know why. But I’m honoured.”
Mixed by long-time collaborator Tony Buchen, mastered by Steve Smart and tracked by Marly Lüske, Dillon described working with Allbrook as “an honour”, going on to say getting him invovled “was really make or break for the song getting made because, I knew it needed to be a man, and I truly don’t know another male vocalists who can hit those high notes with his swagger - when I sent him the track it almost felt like a challenge like… how high can you sing?.”
The track is accompanied by a music video directed by Alex Haygarth (Allbrook’s long-time visual collaborator). “Getting Alex on board felt perfect. He understands Nick’s world and helped capture the sweaty, charged energy of the song,” says Dillon.
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‘Harder Man’ follows on from FFMB’s recent single ‘Scene’, a boistiours collaboration with New York’s Gustaf.
In a chat with The Note earlier this year about ‘Scene’, Dillion discussed how the original seed for the song was planted after a writing trip where she got to work with Gustaf’s drummer, Mel Lucciola. Knowing Gustaf’s Lydia Gammill “was untouchable in terms of vocal swagger,” she got her on the song and the rest is history, with Dillon saying she “knew we’d captured this hybrid power trip that the song was always meant to be.”
Fast becoming one of the country’s best rock acts since the release of their third album, Megaflower, which made it to #1 on the ARIA Australian Albums Chart, FFMB are turning from cult heroes to fully flegded rock and roll stars.
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