Another Castle
Another Castle
Genres: pop, rock, alternative, electronic, lesser known yet streamable artists
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About Another Castle
Another Castle reimagines rock music. Don’t get the wrong impression – Danny keeps his bass amp turned right up, Leo hits the drums as viciously as anyone, Pat’s guitar can barely stay in tune for how hard he attacks the strings, and the singing shows the kind of rock’n'roll vocal stamina built by years of practise and sore throats. But Josh Wayman’s organ and piano sounds hark back a couple of decades to when keyboards actually ROCKED, those rock’n'roll voices are able to blend and soften into two- or three-part harmonies, and Brendan’s accordion – sometimes pretty, sometimes grating and harsh – is as important a part of the band’s sonic identity as any of the traditional “rock” instruments. The band formed in 2007, when fresh-faced songwriters Pat McKenna and Brendan Kelly recieved a surprise entry as an acoustic duo into a local Push Start Battle of the Bands competition, and decided they wanted to turn up with a rock band instead. That competition was won, as was the next round, and as a result the young band found themselves on the bill for the 2008 “Push Over” all-ages music festival, still under the simple name “Pat and Brendan”. The next few years were spent around Melbourne and the outer Eastern suburbs, playing whatever gigs were available – including consistent gigs for the local Youth Services programs. There’ve been a lot of changes over the years – a real band name was eventually decided on, and the lineup has set: Pat on guitar and vocals, Brendan on accordion and vocals, Danny “D-Man” on bass and vocals, Josh S. Wayman on keys and Leo Lionheart on drums. But it all started with Pat and Brendan’s songwriting. Long fascinated by the potential for emotional expression and entertainment in the medium of popular music, writers Pat and Brendan have always churned out solid songs, and their debut EP – FLATLINING WRECK – features some of their strongest to date. As described before, Another Castle’s approach to rock music has always been unique, but this recording takes that to a whole new level. Although it was recorded in just over a week of blood, sweat and tears, the location – a makeshift home studio – allowed the band to record around the clock and experiment with sounds in a way live performances don’t allow. Thunderous piano and a percussively thwacked banjo here, mandolin and acoustic guitar there, a pinch of glockenspiel – between the five members, the band has access to a huge number of instruments, which meant a huge variety of atypical sonic textures to be blended together and thicken out the sound. Another Castle combined this studio adventurousness with the sheer energy and joy of the band’s performances, and the result was FLATLINING WRECK.
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