Periscope, by The Earthmen

Periscope

by The Earthmen

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1.	Hug Me Tighter 02:56	buy track
2.	Whoever's Been Using This Bed 03:37	buy track
3.	Coloured In 04:11	buy track
4.	Scene Stealer 03:36	buy track
5.	Arms Reach 03:19	buy track
6.	Weigh Me Down 06:30	buy track
7.	Call My Name 02:50	buy track
8.	Legroom 03:17	buy track
9.	College Heart 04:33	buy track
10.	Firestarter 06:20	buy track
11.	First Single 03:14	buy track
12.	This Much I Know 05:19	buy track

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Previously unreleased album recorded at Periscope Studios in 1995.

“Do you have those years? 1995 was a year of transition and change that sits redolent of heartaches and loss. Which ` fits with the LP we recorded.
We’d returned from the US and Europe a different band in mid 1994. Nick and I shared a house at 19A Byron St, you know the poet’s bit of Elwood, and we’d begun exploring different sonic avenues. The 94 iteration of the band was the earthmen at their loudest and in response we wanted a more nuanced approach to noise. Sonic bowerbirds. We began to step up and try songwriting.
The love of late sixties folk-rock jangle with a spice mix of Brit pop and Alt-country was colliding with death, breaks of love, new loves that then broke, degrees being finished, hiding in a haze, standing for all to see, a desperate longing and a whole lot of songwriting. If it sounds earnest or overwrought it’s because I think we kinda were at the time: isn’t that what being pre 25 is? Maybe that’s what made the result a bit uncomfortable? Or maybe we hadn’t quite hit the points we’d wanted to achieve fully? Or maybe we did?” - Scott Stevens

"Periscope studios was a house in Caulfield owned by Tim Finn, where Crowded House recorded half of Woodface and apparently, Neil Finn wrote Don't Dream It's Over. Tim's gold albums were stacked in a dusty heap, facing the wall beside a rickety pianola that played a roll of Six Months In A Leaky Boat. In the lounge a periscope rose through the ceiling, its dial displaying ‘fractions of friction.’ Quirks of a success worth to aspiring to.
We were excited to work with Wayne Connolly. As a fellow guitarist, he encouraged our endless overdubs. We were on a steep curve, learning how to make records, a giant leap from just being recorded by someone.
The recordings opened a door at Warners, offering the opportunity to do it all again a bit shinier. Most of the songs were re-recorded later in 1995 and into 1996, becoming the Love Walked In album. Call My Name, College Heart and Firestarter appeared as B-sides. This Much I Know made the album with a few extra overdubs. It’s reassuring now to hear how well formed our ideas were. It’s a shame these recordings got left behind in the rush.” - Nick Batterham

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released January 15, 2021

Scott Stevens: vocals
Nick Batterham: guitars, keyboards
Ben Bleechmore: drums
Robert Cooper: bass

All songs by The Earthmen
Recorded by Wayne Connolly
Mastered by Ernie O

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The Earthmen Melbourne, Australia

An indie pop-rock band formed in 1990, split in '99. Inspired by late '60s psych-pop, late '80s US college noise and UK shoegaze. Graced labels Summershine, Slumberland, Seed, Warners and Popboomerang. Releasing nine singles, two mini albums, one long player and, in 2016, a retrospective College Heart. ... more

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