Was your week in the real estate business really that exciting that you can’t pipe down about it for an hour or so while the band you paid twelve dollars to see play a few songs? Is Surry Hills so devoid of drinking holes that you feel compelled to go to the Hopetoun, even if it means shouting at yo...
There was goodwill in the room this evening. An album launch is always a cause for cheer and congratulations, but tonight there was an added sense of delight, from both the audience and the headliners, as if each were looking at the other and remarking ‘Well now! Just how did we end up here?’ The g...
Four years after their acclaimed debut, Rand & Holland return with a new album. Brett Thompson and Stu Olsen have gone and made a pop record, so they think, and they sound almost surprised about the fact. They’re using words like “pretty”, “light” and “up” to describe Caravans, their new album as Rand & Holland, which follows on from 2003’s stark and slow-moving Tomorrow Will Be Like Today. Seems they got ti...
There’s a surprising but nevertheless welcome sense of radiance to Caravans. It’s as if the dawn has broken over a band that, though never overwhelmingly gloomy, have certainly served their time in music’s more melancholic territories. To open with a track called ‘The Light’ seems perfectly fitting:...
Sydney-based group Rand & Holland have finished their second album and it’s scheduled for release late next month on Spunk! Caravans, the successor to 2003’s Tomorrow Will Be Like Today, was recorded at Big Jesus Burger studio in the band’s hometown and was produced by Chris Townend. Brett Thomp...
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