Love Letter To A Record: Thomas Keating On ‘The Bitter End’ By Right Away, Great Captain!
“I made the decision there and then that someday I would write like you.”
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Love Letter To A Record: Felix Riebl Of The Cat Empire On Paul Simon’s ‘Graceland’
“I can’t even remember how I came across Graceland by Paul Simon, it’s almost like the first time that I heard it, it had always already been with me.”
Love Letter To A Record: Dear Seattle On Kings Of Leon’s ‘Aha Shake Shake Heartbreak’
Brae Fisher of Sydney outfit Dear Seattle on the Kings Of Leon record that inspired him to start making music.
Love Letter To A Record: Set Mo On Moby’s ‘Play’
Having just released their debut album ‘Surrender’ Set Mo reflect on the Moby album that taught them so much about the music they wanted to make.
Love Letter To A Record: The Nicoteenagers On Kings Of Leon’s ‘Because of the Times’
“The only album I’ve learned in its entirety”
Love Letter To A Record: Port Royal On Oasis’ ‘(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?’
“I remember thinking to myself that night, this is perfect, this is worth living for.”
Love Letter To A Record: Mid City On Radiohead’s ‘Kid A’
“Even though you were cold and strange and totally disinterested in my desperate need for a chorus, you were and still are one bad-assed, uncompromised individual”
Love Letter To A Record: Flint Eastwood On Lykke Li’s ‘Youth Novels’
“From the very first note, I fell in love with you.”
Love Letter To A Record: Sunrose On Pink Floyd’s ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’
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: Nathan Ball On The War On Drugs’ ‘Lost In The Dream’
“In a world where a lot of people are losing interest in albums, this is an absolute work of art and the most solid two fingers up to those who have given up on the format.”
Love Letter To A Record: Two People On Portishead’s ‘Dummy’
“Art, bravery, a new kind of sound, fragility and aggression. It’s different to anything I’ll ever hear again.”
Love Letter To A Record: Lucy Neville On The Weepies’ ‘Hideaway’
“A big blue whale in the starry sky of my wildest dreams.”
Love Letter To A Record: Ruby Tuesdays On Paul Kelly’s ‘Songs From The South’
“Lines in P.K songs are kind of like Springsteen songs. Everyone has a different one that is theirs, that talks to them that really resounds with them, that defines them.”
Love Letter To A Record: YoWo Music’s Pearl Harnath On Japanese Breakfast’s ‘Psychopomp’
“I am certainly not being dramatic enough when one considers the scale at which you have changed my life.”
Love Letter To A Record: IV League’s Bella Venutti On My Bloody Valentine’s ‘Loveless’
“This album sonically embodies the perspective of an introvert, and I love to listen to it the most when I’m alone.”
Love Letter To A Record: Kezra On Angus & Julia Stone’s ‘Memories Of An Old Friend’
“You taught me that music can be gentle and sweet but still make you want to cry at the same time.”
Love Letter To A Record: Royal & The Southern Echo On Father John Misty’s ‘I Love you, Honey Bear’
“I’m not just talking musically here. I think you actually helped me be able to express myself to the people around me.”
Love Letter To A Record: Bleeding Knees Club On Modern Lovers’ ‘The Modern Lovers’
“Thank you for making my favourite album of all time.”
Love Letter To A Record: Tia Gostelow On Melody Pool’s ‘The Hurting Scene’
“The first time I heard you, I was 14 and it was like I felt my heart break for the first time “
Love Letter To A Record: He Danced Ivy On Twelve Foot Ninja’s ‘Silent Machine’
What other debut album this side of the Pacific could have dreamed of influencing heavy music the way you did?
