Introducing: Redspencer

February 4th, 2012 • Introducing

Rummaging through the Facebook page of the last band we featured, Woe Flutter, we came across Redspencer – another Gold Coast group who look likely to be making waves over the the course of 2012.

The band are originally from down the road in Glen Innes, Northern New South Wales – population of 5,944 – and it’s perhaps an isolationist existence here in their formative years that informs their beautiful, sunny and tripped out psychedelia, which references everyone from fellow Aussies Tame Impala to The Beatles to Fleet Foxes.

Certainly, it’s not a brand of music you’d expect to be made by a band in a heaving metropolis, and with their lo-fi production and hazy vocals, you’re really whisked away to a place where the pace of life is significantly slower that what you’re used to (assuming you live in London, like us).

“Sally Forgets Good Times” and “Happy Slow Riverbends” are the two tracks in the public domain – and both, with their real throwback feel, conjure up images of Woodstock, the early Isle Of Wight festivals and Vietnam War movies. The latter isn’t short of mean pop hooks, either, and could well be a major calling card for the band as they bring their laid back and soothing sounds to the world at large – which, on the current evidence, would be most welcome indeed.

Sally Forgets – Redspencer by Deaf Ambitions

MP3: Redspencer – Happy Slow Riverbends

Tags: Glen Innes, Gold Coast, Happy Slow Riverbends, Redspencer, Sally Forgets Good Times, Triple J Unearthed

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