The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor

The Outer Void Intrepid Sailor is the brainchild of brothers Lachlan and Gus Franklin who, along with musical think-alike Ben Browning and other assorted friends and collaborators form a group called The Universe. Having spent many a childhood year together in the family car, writing spasmodic ditties to add to their very own fictional top 40 chart, the brothers had a revelatory moment about their place within the universe. Out of this moment came an idea about a project. The idea was to write, arrange and record a collection of songs with the common theme of 'Space.' The results of two years sporadic work, (in between other musical projects such as the Smallgoods, Architecture in Helsinki and The Ca$inos) culminates with 12 songs which vary in style, substance, singer, songwriter and production, to complete a working whole. The narrative tells the fantastical story of an average man, who is chosen to pilot a supercraft to the far reaches of deep space, to establish whether there is an end to the universe…and if so, what lies beyond?