The Sleepy Jackson
‘Spaced-out pop maestro or Australia’s answer to Brian Wilson?’ Whatever. Luke Steele – aka The Sleepy Jackson – is a mythically talented songwriter with a stack of charisma and a headful of awkward, skewered melodies that latch ferociously onto the most basic of chord progressions and simply refuse to relent. ‘I like the peace and quiet which comes with living in Perth’, he says of his isolated surrounds. ‘I can walk down the main road and feel like I’m a professor. Then I can go back to my laboratory and conjure up some more potions’. All of which has resulted in the band’s second album – Personality – an album steeped in traditionalism and which shows off the country/pop chops of Australia’s most enigmatic frontman. It’s upbeat and cheery, and thanks to EMI we have ten copies to give away to random emailers with their favourite sleep-inducing tonic in the body of the message. And, yes, we like bribes. Things that go ‘ahhh’.
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Lost At E Minor: Music, illustration, art, photography - from Australia and beyond » Gentlemen take polaroids said | 23 August, 2006
[...] Darren Seltmann from Australian electro/hip pop group, The Avalanches, selects five of his favourite tracks to sample. ‘1. Kojak – David Rutter. This guy was so pissed off when Kojak got taken off the air that he wrote a song; 2. Tension – DJ Shadow. Better than Kojak, but without a concept it can’t be number one; 3. Rum Is Macho – Mighty Sparrow. The lyrics indicate that rum became uncool in the late 70s. Sparrow disagreed. 4. Fever – Lord Kitchener. Kitch singing that he’s sick and dying from dancing and singing; 5. Breakdown – Arrow. Everyone needs to breakdown’. [see also The Sleepy Jackson; Hot Chip; The Glimmers] [...]