With so much new music floating around the interwebs, sometimes it’s hard to dig a little deeper and find out more about a promising artist.
That’s why The Profile is breaking it down for you. The Pitch takes care of the nitty gritty factual bits, The Plot serves as a Q & A with the artist, and The Plug is where you can go for more.
The Pitch
“Slum Sociable is a project that was originally made for a university assignment and subsequently wasn’t going to be released. However after losing someone extremely close to us we decided to get our act together and release it in his honour. He is the handsome devil on the artwork.”
“Lo-fi, washed-out, jazz. This was the first thing we’d ever produced and mixed ourselves, so we didn’t really have any expectations. There was an emphasis on limiting certain aspects of the recording to force ourselves to be more creative. Hopefully that comes through in the EP.”
The Plot
Hometown:
“Melbourne. There is a massive source of inspiration from Melbourne-based artists for us especially. You only have to look at Wondercore Island’s list of artists to gauge the amount great acts there are in Melbourne at the moment.”
Influences:
“Portishead, Doom, Broadcast, Hiatus Kaiyote, Mac DeMarco, 70s Italian Fun, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, The Wire, Storman Norman, and Joe Pass.”
Venue or Festival you’d love to play:
“Meredith or Golden Plains. I think we’ve been to at least one of those every year for the last five years; the perfect celebration of music.”
Best gig you’ve ever been to:
“Radiohead or Unknown Mortal Orchestra, both here in Melbourne. Ruban Nielson’s guitar work is as entertaining as it is intricate, and he somehow managed to recreate all of those sounds on their two records live. Radiohead were flawless, and the mixing of two drum kits into the one live show was outrageous.”
What’s your gear setup like:
“We record everything at our home studio with a very minimalist set-up. For this release we used the one mediocre microphone we’d previously procured from a friend’s house.”
Favourite local acts:
“I’lls, Kirkis.”
First song you ever wrote:
“For this project it was ‘Watch Me Turn Colourful’. But I can’t remember the very first song we ever wrote. It was most likely something terrible with exactly the same chord structure as a Mars Volta song or something.”
The Plug
“There will hopefully be some shows in the very near future. A lot of artists we respect have put their hand up to play in this project so that’s really encouraging. Until then you can scope out the EP.”
Check out the self-titled Slum Sociable EP on bandcamp here.
