Holy Coast, by The Broken Needles

Holy Coast

by The Broken Needles

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	1.	Sunrise over Cape Cleveland Lighthouse 01:06
	2.	The Great Divide 04:49
	3.	Bound to Fade 04:35
	4.	Postcards from the Hadal Zone 08:18
	5.	Cemetery 03:23
	6.	Headstream 05:52
	7.	The Slow Drift 05:36
	8.	Q-Ball 05:54

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The follow-up to 2012’s TERRA NULLIUS (hailed by Rolling Stone as, “a wet-season postcard from Psychoville, N.Q.”), HOLY COAST sees THE BROKEN NEEDLES’ ferocious twin-guitar attack gracefully supplanted by billowing synth textures, meandering pedal steel lines and baroque string arrangements. The result is a lucid dreamscape that traverses the astral plane from a salt-kissed coastal dawn to the glowing pink sunsets of the western desert across the album’s eight songs.

The release comes after the band’s recent move from North Queensland, Australia to Melbourne; their cathartic live shows having gained a dedicated following in the southern capital.

At the heart of the record is a flickering, slow-burning lounge flame with a pulsing undercurrent of detached lunacy and seroquel soul. Strings lull in and out of focus, sober pianos tinker in the distance, and muted trumpets sound from ‘cross the great divide of shoegaze guitar feedback and swirling synth squalls; with the sugar cane molasses of Mick Galloway’s quavering baritone gluing the whole thing together.

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released June 20, 2014

All songs written by Michael S. Galloway, except Sunrise Over Cape Cleveland Lighthouse written by Matthew Maclean

Engineered, Produced and Mixed by The Broken Needles at Palace Studios and Various Positions around Melbourne

Drums on Cemetery, The Slow Drift and Headstream engineered by Sam Wright at The Rec Room

Mastered by Casey Rice

Cover Artwork and Layout by Jordan Grant

Michael S. Galloway // Guitar, Melodica, Synths, Vocals
Matthew Maclean // Guitar, Organ, Piano, Trumpet
Cahill Kelly // Bass, Guitar, Vocals, Mandolin, Mandola, Hand Percussion
Kyle Setch // Drums
Nestor Romanyk // Viola, Violin, Cello, Synths

Laura Morgan // Vocals
Johnny Graffham // Pedal Steel
Amy Galloway // Violin
Justin Fimmel // Drums

Ⓟ© All Recordings 2014 The Broken Needles.

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The Broken Needles Melbourne, Australia

THE BROKEN NEEDLES are a Melbourne-based independent rock band originally hailing from Townsville, North Queensland.

Their debut album -- the maniacally rain-drenched, feedback-soaked TERRA NULLIUS -- was released in 2012, prompting Rolling Stone to declare it a, “Wet-season postcard from Psychoville, N.Q.”

The band's second studio album HOLY COAST will be released in June 2014. ... more

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