Recorded by Michael Carpenter while supporting Kate Martin 'Hush Hush' at The Loft show. Thanks Michael! :)

Home (live duo Jess/Will)

Big Summer Hodor

Addiction

Produced  & Mixed by Maxwell Roberts / Melbourne Australia
Mastered by Ben Feggans at 301 Studios. Keep On Lying 2016

Keep On Lying

Get your download on of the Aunty Donna Christmas Carol.

soundcloud.com/auntydonna

Aussie Christmas Carol

Recorded live at Red Bennies. Recorded/Mixed by Ben Anderson

Baby Baby Please (live)

Weeks At All

Our single ' Peace of Mind', recorded at JMC Academy, mixed by Benjamin Ko Jones. The B-Sides are three live recordings from the Jon Curtin courtesy of Jackson Collins

Ain't No Gold

Listen to the B-Side that comes with the our debut single 'Give Me Something.'

Green Light

Download this track free from: hopestreetrecordings.com/woodenboy

Wooden Boy (Part 3) is the first single from The Cactus Channel's sophomore album "Wooden Boy" out Sept 2 on HopeStreet Recordings on vinyl LP/CD/digital.

It’s soul music, baby, but not as we know it. The backbeat and the handclaps are still there and the horns still sound. The bass bumps, the organ screams and the guitars still twang, but the singer has left the room. Everything is shades of blue. This is soul music for the after hours. For the solitary dancers and the lonely hearts. The soundtrack to solitary headlights on a midnight highway. What to call it? Who cares. Can you dance to it? Just try not to. No one’s telling you to throw your hands up in the air, but no one would be surprised if you did. It’s dark here, so you can do your own thing.

Wooden Boy was recorded by The Cactus Channel -- a ten piece band from Melbourne, Australia -- all born in the 90s and raised on the internet. Yet somehow, this astonishing follow up to last year's rave-reviewed debut, Haptics, sounds like it could have been recorded in the 1970s, or possibly in the distant future. A timeless, placeless cinematic oddysey, Wooden Boy could have been an alternate soundtrack to Ghost Dog -- if Lalo Schifrin and the Meters were collaborating on the RZA's score. Or maybe Wooden Boy was what happened when Lars Von Trier got invited to direct an episode of Soul Train. What any of it may actually mean is left to the listener's imaginantion.

Funk aficionados will hear shades of New York on this record, echoes of El Michel’s taking on Wu Tang, the influence of Budos and Menehan et al. But this is the Generation Z version; both more tempestuous and more introverted. Recorded analog in the digital era, presented faceless in the celebrity era, inexplicably ambiguous in the soundbite era, is this the album the world needs right now? Undoubtedly yes. In a world where the NSA can read the text message that dumped you, what does a person need more than sad soul music from the future? Wooden Boy, baby Wooden Boy.

"[Wooden Boy (Part 3)] starts with great conversational gusto between the horns and guitars, but over the next three minutes detours into surf twang, well-oiled rhythmic breaks, ominous soundtrack-style cues and finally a reprisal of the lingering drag that kicks off the song."
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