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Broke House is the latest collaboration between songwriters Luke Costelloe and Ron Francois. Costelloe was raised on a diet of ‘00s indie rock music, whereas Francois was active in England's post-punk and neo-psychedelic scenes before joining the Eurogliders and moving to Australia in the '80s. They met in 2008 when Francois caught Costelloe's first band at a live show on the Central Coast of Australia.
Despite decades between the pair, you will hear no generation gap. As Beat Mag's Augustus Welby claims: “Their production, co-writing and multi-instrumentalist capacities have reached the point of symbiosis. The result is a 10-track album, comprising a complete and resonant artistic statement, that evokes such dynamic existential explorers as The War on Drugs, Sun Kil Moon, and The Blue Nile.”
Broke House is the culmination of over a year of songwriting and recording at Francois' Point Studio. The album chronicles a strange year in Costelloe’s life. Described variously in songs of longing, disappointment, disaffection and estrangement. These stories appear as apparitions, transmitted through the ether on whammy bar and spring reverb. They are held in containment with metronomic bass, kick and snare, while resonant keyboards tune in as mediums, vibrating with the melancholy. Each piece is slowly focused into life, dipped in lacquer and fixed in space.
Despite decades between the pair, you will hear no generation gap. As Beat Mag's Augustus Welby claims: “Their production, co-writing and multi-instrumentalist capacities have reached the point of symbiosis. The result is a 10-track album, comprising a complete and resonant artistic statement, that evokes such dynamic existential explorers as The War on Drugs, Sun Kil Moon, and The Blue Nile.”
Broke House is the culmination of over a year of songwriting and recording at Francois' Point Studio. The album chronicles a strange year in Costelloe’s life. Described variously in songs of longing, disappointment, disaffection and estrangement. These stories appear as apparitions, transmitted through the ether on whammy bar and spring reverb. They are held in containment with metronomic bass, kick and snare, while resonant keyboards tune in as mediums, vibrating with the melancholy. Each piece is slowly focused into life, dipped in lacquer and fixed in space.
