Love Letter To A Record: Fierce Mild On Pink Floyd’s ‘Piper at the Gates of Dawn’
“You express the world better than anyone. You express something that most people cannot.”
Love Letter To A Record
Love Letter To A Record: Dan Vogl On Gang Of Youths’ ‘Go Farther In Lightness’
“To Dave, and the rest of the band, you are truly one of a kind and an enormous source of inspiration.”
Love Letter To A Record: Du0 On Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ ‘No More Shall We Part’
“Tiptoeing between spirituality and blasphemy is seemingly second nature to Cave… his music is timeless”
Love Letter To A Record: Maya Rose On Ariana Grande’s ‘Dangerous Woman’
“There’s something bout you that makes me feel like a Dangerous Woman, too.”
Love Letter To A Record: Froyo On Empire Of The Sun’s ‘Walking On A Dream’
“The first full length Australian record in my life that I ever fell in love with. Not The Wiggles. You.”
Love Letter To A Record: Lucifer Gunne On Pixies’ ‘Doolittle’
“You have been the album of my life and I have never fallen out of love with you. Every time I blast you through my headphones, I am filled with a joy that I can’t explain.”
Love Letter To A Record: Ceres On AC/DC’s ‘If You Want Blood You’ve Got It’
“I’ll always be thankful that you were captured on tape in full flight, in your loud and perfect glory.”
Love Letter To A Record: Blue Velvet On PUP’s Self-Titled Debut
“Once we heard this record, there was no way of turning back from the influence it would have on us.”
Love Letter To A Record: RAT!hammock On Bright Eyes’ ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’
“Here’s my fuck you, I love you letter.”
Love Letter To A Record: PUP On Built To Spill’s ‘There’s Nothing Wrong With Love’
“The album is raw. At times it sounds bad. A lot of the playing is kind of shit… And it is fucking incredible.”
Love Letter To A Record: Totally Unicorn On Frenzal Rhomb’s ‘Not So Tough Now’
“We would hang out for months on end in my room together and even in my brother’s Datsun.”
Love Letter To A Record: MONATOMIC’s Tarran Webster On Muse’s ‘The Resistance’
“The Resistance contains some of the greatest bass riffs of all time, past, present and future (probably).”
Love Letter To A Record: Sahara Beck On Lou Reed’s ‘Transformer’
“When I found you, I remembered why I am the way I am”
Love Letter To A Record: Allipha On Anderson Paak’s ‘Malibu’
“You lit the fire in my belly that I thought had long been burning, and I cannot thank you enough for steering me into a direction of passion, soul and groove.”
Love Letter To A Record: Down For Tomorrow’s Henry Beard On Weezer’s ‘Pinkerton’
“As a hormone-riddled teenager, I could never understand how anyone could possibly be ‘tired of having sex’, but I sang along with jealous undertones to Rivers listing off the names of his sexual conquests.”
Love Letter To A Record: Georgia Reed On The Killers’ ‘Hot Fuss’
“I danced to Hot Fuss as a child, and I still dance to it now, in a bar, at 3am.”
Love Letter To A Record: High Tropics’ Josh Stewart On Oasis’ ‘Definitely Maybe’
“You changed my musical life’s trajectory by making me fall in love with rock ‘n’ roll… starting me on my songwriting journey… and by sending me on an endless quest to find the perfect denim jacket”
Love Letter To A Record: Iluka On Patti Smith’s ‘Horses’
“I loved the music yes, but there was something in the poetry that shattered me open to reveal a whole new way of thinking and a whole new dedication to my own art and music.”
Love Letter To A Record: Bag Raiders On Susumu Yokota’s ‘Grinning Cat’
“It’s like he assembles music rather than writing or creating it, something I find both fascinating and inspiring.”
Love Letter To A Record: Clare Bowditch On Donny Hathaway’s ‘Live’
“If you have ever come to my live show, there’s a good chance that the feeling you’re feeling is something that I first dreamt of, first longed to create, the night I heard ‘Donny Hathaway Live’ for the first time.”
