Loose Content followed up the release of their debut EP with a gripping Rolling Stone AU/NZ ‘In My Room’ session.
The Melbourne-based alt-rock trio released their first EP, Costumes, via Impressed Recordings at the end of March, and it features highlights throughout its seven tracks.
There’s “Where the Hollow People Sleep”, a battering ram of an opening track (and debut single to boot), and “Pet Alsatian”, with its comically sprightly choral refrain, “We’re all gonna die and maybe that’s just fine.” There’s also “Tapestry of Life”, a raw ballad about “the interconnectedness of the human experience.”
Aided by production from the renowned Nick DiDia, who helped guide so many classic albums from the era, Loose Content wear their ’90s influences with pride on their EP.
The impact of Australian alternative rock antecedents like Powderfinger and Midnight Oil can be heard throughout Costumes, and there are also notes of US heavyweights like Pixies and The Smashing Pumpkins. In the present, they would fit nicely on a bill with the likes of Wunderhorse, Wolf Alice, or the excellent Chicago trio Horsegirl, who also know how to expertly bring older rock sounds into the 2020s.
What Loose Content have really learned from rock bands of the ’90s is how to nail the loud/quiet structure. The trio are keenly aware of when to cathartically rage and when to hold back within the dynamic tracks on Costumes. Tension and release, tension and release – it’s a simple formula, but Loose Content are already doing it so well.
For their ‘In My Room’ session, the band opened with the closing track on their EP, the meandering and melancholic “March of the Mournful”. They then slipped into “Newsreader”, a new song, before finishing with “What Happened to the Sky”, another standout track from Costumes.
Watch their full ‘In My Room’ session above.
Loose Content will launch their EP at shows in Brisbane, Sydney, and Melbourne next month, with an appearance at Air Waves Festival also scheduled for May 17th (see full dates below).
Loose Content’s Costumes EP is out now via Impressed Recordings.
