White Summer have been doing the Melbourne circuit for quite some time now. Drawing influences from The Mess Hall, The Black Keys and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club , you can definitely hear their sources of inspiration coming through on this new tune. ‘ Head In The Sand ‘ got a long awaited nod from triple J for the band, getting premiered on Dom Alessio’s Home & Hosed last Tuesday.
The track itself is a thumper, some of the chunkiest bass guitar I have in a long time heard introduces the track’s pace. Then, like a fly to honey, some gritty-as-fuck guitar introduces itself. You can hear the metal strings scream as they are distorted by a humbucker and layed over a driving drum beat. James Stanfields vocals growl over the raw instruments, building into a hurts-so-good chorus that makes me think of beer-drenched carpet, the days when you used to be able to smoke inside and bar fights….. Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Following on from the success of the band’s 2012 Double A-Side, which featured lead single ‘ Dirty Highway ‘, this three piece are back with ‘Head In The Sand’; a triumphant howler of a blues infused rock n roll gem.
White Summer are throwing a n official single launch party, see the details below.
WHITE SUMMER “Head In The Sand” SINGLE LAUNCH
Thursday 24th October @ The Evelyn
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Kashmere Club, Winter Moon & Bones Blackwood
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Oh, and if you ever want a bio written about you, inquire within. Because White Summers is delicious:
Somewhere along the long and winding road that is musical history, tucked in between Beethoven and Bob Dylan’s back pages, a whole lot of people decided they had a preference for tightly coiled metal strings being distorted by a humbucker over the top of a driving snare drum like gunfire during sex. And from this predilection came rock music. But not just any kind of rock music – the kind where blues drips from grit-stained fingers, the kind where dancing comes with screaming and the kind you wouldn’t let your daughter near for all the whiskey in the world.Before they got their shit together and started making exactly that kind of music, the majority of White Summer were hanging out in the picturesque coastal hinterland of Phillip Island in Victoria (a place that’s tourism website includes amongst its star attractions: a cooking school, a maze and a “venison and cuckoo clock farm”). Lead vocalist and drummer Jimmy Stanfield and guitarist Michael Barnsley then took on the city-slicking bassist Anthony Zielke to become that most prized and valued of things: an exciting new rock band.
WORDS BY Huw Nolan
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