The Vascoe Era Returns with ‘I Don’t Mind’, Their First New Single in Over a Decade
‘I Don’t Mind’ is taken from the surf rocker’s forthcoming album of the same name.
Image Kell Blackmore
Bursting onto the scene as teenagers in the early 2000s, The Vasco Era’s compelling blues rock combo attracted fans from across the globe.
Releasing three albums in five years (2007’s Oh We Do Like To Be Besides the Seaside, 2010’s Lucille and 2011’s The Vasco Era) and gaining a reputation for their frantic live performances, The Vasco Era went silently into the night… until now.
‘I Don’t Mind’ is an absolute rip-snorter and a welcome return from The Vasco Era. The track is taken from the album of the same name (the band’s fourth), which arrives September 19 via Marthouse Records. Produced by longtime collaborator Greg Rietwyk, I Don’t Mind is split into two sides, Side A: Yelling and Side B: Crying. “This record is us embracing both chaos and beauty,” vocalist Sid O’Neil reflects. “Yelling and crying — two sides of the same coin.”
Speaking on their new track, O’Neil adds, “‘I Don’t Mind’ is about walking around seeing the lies and accepting them. But like all thought processes, just when you settle on a perspective, it gets upset. I’ve been through actual hell and almost heaven since our last release — this song is about almost reaching acceptance. Kinda.”
The track is accompanied by a music video featuring O’Neil walking barefoot in the bush with a walking stick his son made. “My son made a walking stick out of a goat skull, so I decided to walk around with it and make a film clip, as all good fathers would,” he says.
READ MORE: Adelaide’s Own DIVERBAR YOUTH Announces National Tour
Originating from Apollo Bay but now based in Melbourne, The Vasco Era comprises brothers Sid (vocals, guitar, lapsteel, rototoms) and Ted (bass) O'Neil and Michael Fitzgerald (drums).
Winning the 2004 Australian National Campus Band Competition, the lads landed a record deal with Universal Music Australia and released their 2007 debut, Oh We Do Like to Be Beside the Seaside.
The trio toured across Australia and played some of the big international music festivals, including China’s Midi Modern Music Festival, the UK’s The Great Escape and the US’s CMJ Music Marathon.
I Don’t Mind arrives September 19 via Marthouse Records. Pre-order the album here.
