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About Floodlights
Hometown
Melbourne, Australia
Formed
2019
Genre
Alternative
Formed in 2018, this earnest, ramshackle Melbourne indie quartet concern themselves with the beauty, wide expanse, and culture of Australia while also highlighting perceived societal injustices. Although described by some as "Australiana," Floodlights' sound sails much closer to ragged and plaintive folk-rock than country.
It was after seeing a show at The Tote Hotel -- an iconic Melbourne venue that has hosted alternative acts since 1980 -- that Floodlights came together. When the band gathered, Louis Parsons and Ashlee Kehoe both played guitar and sang, with Parsons taking the lead vocals and Kehoe adding harmonica. Joe Draffen played bass and Archie Shannon, a member of the more experimental Dragoons, drummed and used his experience to engineer and produce their first recordings. These took place in mid-2018 at Love Shack Studios in the Footscray district of Melbourne. Inspired by Parsons' road trip to the titular southern Australian coastal region, "Nullarbor" snuck out digitally as their first single in March 2019 and they added "Small Town Pub" and "Backyard" to it for their self-released debut EP, Backyard, in May. In addition, the release was front-loaded with a meditative spoken-word introduction on the healing properties of the Nullarbor Plain by Bunna Lawrie, a Mirning Elder and Whaledreamer.
To promote the EP, Floodlights subsequently played a number of hometown shows and toured the east coast that October. By November, they'd been signed to Spunk Records, a company with an already impressive roster of homegrown and international indie rock artists. That same month, they recorded their debut full-length in two days at the local Head Gap studios, with the first of this material appearing the following spring. Meanwhile, Spunk's reissue of Backyard sparked interest further afield and began to garner plays both on U.K. and U.S. alternative radio programming. The hard-rocking "Matter of Time" appeared in March 2020, upping the ante politically. This was followed in May by "Happiness" and in June by "Thanks for Understanding," the latter track seeing Parsons and Kehoe exchange male-female call-and-response vocal lines. All three songs were issued ahead of and ultimately included on From a View, a debut LP with a tighter sound than their earliest material. ~ James Wilkinson
Members of Floodlights include, or have included, Louis Parsons.
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