The Thousands

The first release for Brisbane-based Lost Race Records comes in the form of a split 7”, featuring the dream-pop of Nite Fields and the more experimental-pop leaning Happy New Year.

Brisbane four-piece Nite Fields give us a straightforward tune, a sort of shoegaze/garage hybrid, somewhat like Slowdive, if that helps. It’s simple and unwavering to the point that it sounds like a condensed jam in which the members were daydreaming in tropical fields of the remote far north – what goes on tour, comes out on this record. It’s languid and repetitive, and the vocals give you the notion that you might have put it on at the wrong speed.

Happy New Year is the work of Eleanor Logan, a former Brisbane punk rocker, now living in New York. Taking a departure from previous, more angry rock n roll, the delicately spaced-out ‘High Sea’, captures you with its layered ambiance and foreshadowed melodies. A humbly sad tune which pleasantly distracts you with subtle dynamics.