Staring At The Sky

The recording is something of a trans-continental affair, begun in Paris during this past Summer's Matinee Festival. The boys borrowed some instruments and recording gear, and for three grueling days locked themselves into an apartment on the Boulevard Voltaire, living on baguettes, coffee, and red wine. Back home in Australia, and persevering with their new-found worldliness, The Lucksmiths invited a few of their friends around to a backyard shed to polish the thing off-some horns here, some strings there, a little piano, an even smaller melodica they found in an op-shop in Finland. The end result is tres magnifique! 'Staring At The Sky' is six understated classic pop tunes spanning everything from love and self pity to aviation history, half the tunes are mellow balladry, while the others are plenty upbeat, seriously melodic janglers, the kind of winsome/wholesome pop that made them international indie-popstars! Expect BELLE & SEBASTIAN-esque guitar-pop dreaminess with friendly harmonies and even friendlier melodies, so 'friendly' it might verge on 'quite intimate'… Currently touring the US and headed for Japan in December in support of the album.