Love Letter To A Record: Zac Eichner On Gang of Youths’ ‘Go Farther In Lightness’
“You’ve saved and inspired me more times than you could imagine”
Love Letter To A Record
Love Letter To A Record: Murray Cook (AKA The OG Red Wiggle) On Bowie’s ‘Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars’
“His androgynous image sowed the seeds for kids of that era to become a little more tolerant of the “weird” or the outsiders. Or it validated us if we were the “weird” or the outsider.”
Love Letter To A Record: Jack Berry On Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Favourite Worst Nightmare’
“I can look back and find a wealth of inspiration in the idea of a guitar-orientated band, channeling this all into a laptop.”
Love Letter To A Record: Circa Waves On The Maccabees’ Wall of Arms
“Wall Of Arms inspired me to write in the way I do.”
Love Letter To A Record: Saavan’s Lucas Mokrani On Apparat’s ‘The Devil’s Walk’
“I felt like I had never heard something quite like it before”
Love Letter To A Record: Royal East’s Pat O’Bryan On The Killers’ ‘Sam’s Town’
“My mum did not like you, not one bit. Who could blame her… I’d beg her to let you come with us on every car ride”
Love Letter To A Record: Seaside’s Darcy Dexter On The Cure’s ‘Disintegration’
“I remember the first time I heard you it felt like I was born in the wrong era”
Love Letter To A Record: ALTA On Burial’s ‘Untrue’
“When you know something well enough, it becomes a part of you, stitches in your own fabric.”
Love Letter To A Record: Houg On Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’
“What you have done to inspire me is to allow myself to find my own personality and confidence and explore my own creative expression.”
Love Letter To A Record: KITO On DJ Shadow’s ‘Endtroducing’
From a holiday fling to a lifelong companion.
Love Letter To A Record: MUKI On Ellie Goulding’s ‘Halycon’
“It was the first time it clicked in my head that pop music really could be whatever I wanted it to be.”
Love Letter To A Record: Green Buzzard On Guided by Voices’ ‘Bee Thousand’
Before ‘Bee Thousand’ there was nothing, it changed everything for me.
Love Letter To A Record: Stevie Jean On Lana Del Rey’s ‘Born To Die’
“You taught me just how vulnerable you can be as a musician without losing your power as a woman.”
Love Letter To A Record: The Casanovas’ Tommy Boyce On AC/DC’s ‘If You Want Blood You’ve Got It’
“You penetrated me so deep… You shook me all night long even though you hadn’t even written that song yet.”
Love Letter To A Record: Jakob On Frank Ocean’s ‘Channel Orange’
“I didn’t know what love really was and what it meant but for the first time, I got a glimpse of what it felt like because of you, Channel Orange.”
Love Letter To A Record: Dan Kelly On Ashra’s ‘New Age of Earth’
“Like getting a dawn train across the cosmos as your mind is bathed in the glow of a thousand sunrises.”
Love Letter To A Record: Thornhill’s Jacob Charlton On Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’
“To make songs move and feel like they take you on a journey is something that we aspire to and this record does that perfectly.”
Love Letter To A Record: Jack Colwell On Sarah Blasko’s ‘What The Sea Wants, The Sea Will Have’
“As I was falling in love with Sarah’s music, I was also falling in love with my first boyfriend.”
Love Letter To A Record: SCABZ’ Siobhan Poynton On Eddy Current Suppression Ring’s ‘Rush To Relax’
“You helped me find a new way to sing and talk about the things I saw in the world around me.”
Love Letter To A Record: Gyroscope’s Rob Nassif On Jebediah’s ‘Slightly Odway’
“They showed us all, that a band from the suburbs of Perth could make it on a national level.”
