STACK #144 Oct 2016

NEWS MUSIC

INTERVIEW

THE PEEP TEMPEL

J ulia Jacklin, Gabriella Cohen and Regina Spektor - not a trio of gals you want to shake a stick at. Each has released a stunning album this month and each lent their time to us for a few insightful words. Meanwhile we have a double feature going on; discussions of Nick Cave's film and album, as well as Our Tim's stellar piece on cover artist Bon Iver's astonishing third album. On top of that, have you heard D.D Dumbo's latest?

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Read the full interview online at stack.net.au

Q1/ Kalgoorlie is a brutally emotive opener. Have any or all of you guys spent a lot of time in the town? I’ve spent some time there; Steve and Stew grew up in Victoria, so are yet to have had the pleasure. Everybody seemed to have a story about Kalgoorlie when I was growing up. It is a place that has represented hope for so many over the years, yet has a brutality to it, as do many mining towns. Originally it was a tongue-in-cheek country song, filled with clichés about Kalgoorlie. It’s certainly taken on a darker edge. Q2/ The car noise – it idles for the whole of Constable , and it gives some really vivid imagery. Why did you guys decide to include it? The car engine was recorded a year or so before we went in to make the album. I had an old diesel van that had done 400,000 kms and had settled into a really nice tone and rhythm, so we recorded it. We felt the engine amplified both the personal and geographical isolation that our man was experiencing in this track. Many people have used a long drive to reflect upon their existence, we were trying to recreate that. Q3/ In the chorus to Rayguns , the lyrics go “’Cos the regime is coming, and they’re all on ice” – do you mean the drug, or is it the idiomatic expression? It’s a reference to the drug. There was an article written in a major news outlet about ISIS using some sort of super ice/amphetamine. Which is possibly, even probably, true. Though if I were to hazard a guess, I’d say this article was intended to distract, rather than inform. Australia is like one big Tromp family picnic. Apparently, someone is coming to steal all our cookies. Thankfully, I don’t eat cookies. The Peep Tempel are about to release one of the most starkly incredible, ferociously Australian albums of the year; we chatted to frontman Blake Scott about Joy .

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W hen it comes to romance, the ¾ time signature takes the red velvet cake – it could be its connotations with the waltz or maybe something more mysteriously primal, but Julia Jacklin attributes her predilection for it with Leonard Cohen. “I just love everything that he does,” she says. “I think it’s that song of his, Memories ? I just wanted to get that feeling all the time, that I get when I hear that song.” The folk-soaked tracks on Don’t Let

The Kids Win certainly do give a similar feel, but instead of the gold lamé grandeur of Memories their warmth comes from a late summer, suburban sun. There are jangly gems like Coming Of Age , evocative Laura Marling-like tales as in Sweet Step , and the wonderfully atmospheric Same Airport features finger-picked electric guitar, with tiny creaks and echoed shrieks in the background. “We couldn’t figure out what to do with that song in the

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studio,” Jacklin explains.“I think it was the last night actually. Then we were like, ‘Let’s get a bit weird. We’ll turn all the lights off and just make some odd sounds.’ We were all giggling and sitting around in the dark, whacking things.” The album's title alludes to Jacklin's comprehension of maturity, and how to get there without lamenting the loss of youth in too regretful a fashion. "You just have to be pretty strong; say to yourself 'Hey, it doesn't matter.' I do feel like women kind of get shut out of things at a certain age, and I guess I feel that fear." Expect to hear much more about this exceptional woman in the coming months.

Don't Let The Kids Win by Julia Jacklin is out October 7 via Liberation.

Joy by The Peep Tempel is out October 14 via Wing Sing Records.

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