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
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.”
Love Letter To A Record: Krown On Bob Marley’s ‘Exodus’
“It illuminates light on a cause that someone else was fighting for in the past: Freedom for Jah people”
Love Letter To A Record: Priscilla On Troye Sivan’s ‘Bloom’
“I feel this particular connection to Sivan’s music as his coming out had such an effect on me when I was in the throws of my own struggles.”
Love Letter To A Record: Adrian Eagle On The Notorious BIG’s ‘Ready To Die’
‘You gave an overweight boy from Adelaide housing trust a huge HOPE and dream that one day I would find a girl who liked me for being me even though I was big.’
Love Letter To A Record: Reside On Say Anything’s ‘ In Defense of the Genre’
“This is a record that distorted my mind for what a punk band could be and how a rock album can tell such a tragic narrative just the same way a musical can.”
Love Letter To A Record: Mansionair On Daft Punk’s ‘Discovery’
“When my friend first introduced us I have to say I was skeptical, you weren’t really “my type”…What a fool I once was”
Love Letter To A Record: Kirklandd On Lupe Fiasco’s ‘Food & Liquor’
“I still haven’t heard anything like it.”
Love Letter To A Record: Alice Ivy On The Middle East’s ‘I Want That You Are Always Happy’
“My favourite thing to do was just hit play from the start ‘Black Death 1349’ and walk the 20 minutes to school which took me to about the halfway point, ‘Mount Morgan’. Then I’d listen to the remainder on my way home. “
