Love Letter To A Record: Bob Evans On Nada Surf’s ‘Let Go’
“It was like you knew me before we’d ever met, studied my soul and materialised in front of me like a sweet elixir, bringing comfort to my broken heart.”
Love Letter To A Record
Love Letter To A Record: Last Dinosaurs’ Sean Caskey On The Strokes’ ‘Room on Fire’
“Thank you for inspiring me to put on skinny jeans. Thank you for inspiring me to start playing guitar.”
Love Letter To A Record: Creo’s Jorjee Haman On Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Darkness On The Edge of Town’
“You continue to be the endless source of inspiration I need to keep pushing on, and for that I am forever grateful”
Love Letter To A Record: RACKETT’s Ally Gaven On ‘Rage Against The Machine’
“I still remember telling my mum, for the first and only time “FUCK YOU I WON’T DO WHAT YOU TELL ME”. It didn’t end well.”
Love Letter To A Record: The Vanns On Jeff Buckley’s ‘Grace’
“To an artist who left us too soon with an album which shall live on forever, this is not our Last Goodbye.”
Love Letter To A Record: Eves Karydas On Taylor Swift’s ‘Fearless’
“I fell in love with you at 15… You helped me realise that to be a teenage girl and to feel EVERYTHING was okay.”
Love Letter To A Record: Nathan Cavaleri On The Teskey Brothers ‘Half Mile Harvest’
“Your tone and melodies swept me up, landing me smack in the middle of the worlds that you sing of.”
Love Letter To A Record: Hey Geronimo On Radiohead’s ‘In Rainbows’
“I will always be grateful to Radiohead for making me feel like five guys in Oxford genuinely cared about an 17 year old boy in Brisbane.”
Love Letter To A Record: Eskimo Joe’s Kav Temperley On Neil Young’s ‘Harvest’
“I still have my Maton that I first wrote my songs for you on, and I’ve used it on every Eskimo Joe record since, but… now I also have managed to craft an album that is devoted to you.”
Love Letter To A Record: Gretta Ray On Laura Marling’s ‘Once I Was An Eagle’
“I love how you are an ode to a tragic experience, yet a celebration of the fact that you ‘rose above’ this, ‘and preyed’.”
Love Letter To A Record: Jimmy Vallance Of Bob Moses On Moby’s ‘Play’
“It was the first time I remember wanting to know how music was made. It was like I had seen a magic show and I wanted to get a peak behind the curtain.”
Love Letter To A Record: Maribou State On Burial’s ‘Untrue’
“In that old conservatory of my parent’s bungalow, you opened my mind to a new alluring rhythm, a new beat that pulsed through my veins like a rush of ‘Endorphins’ to the head…”
Love Letter To A Record: The Paper Kites On Andy Shauf’s ‘The Party’
“Terrified, confused and self-critical, you personify a vast majority of us millennials, while also posing a timely question: Why am I still at the party?”
Love Letter To A Record: Pirra’s Jess Beck On No Doubt’s ‘Tragic Kingdom’
Many of us can link a certain album to pivotal moments in our lives. Whether it’s the first record you bought with your own money, the chord you first learnt to play on guitar, the song that soundtracked your first kiss, the album that got you those awkward and painful pubescent years or the one
Love Letter To A Record: Skegss’ Ben Reed On Black Lips’ ‘Arabia Mountain’
“It’s like you’re made with more meaning than one would assume, and no one will be ever be able to decode.”
Love Letter To A Record: Linying On Bruno Major’s ‘A Song For Every Moon’
The Singaporean indie-electronic pop artist tells us about the album that changed her life, ahead of her showcase at BIGSOUND 2018
Love Letter To A Record: WHARVES On Arctic Monkeys’ ‘Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not’
“I love that this album is, at its core, just bass, drums and guitar. There are no gimmicks”
Love Letter To A Record: DIET On Interpol’s ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’
“Thank you for writing the soundtrack to my puberty”
Love Letter To A Record: Sometime Sonny On Coldplay’s ‘Parachutes’
“You will forever be my lights, out red wine album”
Love Letter To A Record: VOLTE On Halsey’s ‘Badlands’
“Thank you for everything, for picking me up when I was down, for inspiring me, for saving me when I didn’t even realise I needed saving.”
