(2013) remix of the debut single 'glaciers' from Newcastle band 'Twin Lakes'.

Twin Lakes - 'glaciers' (Bell Weather Department remix)

Since their debut album, Bell Weather Department have taken a sharp turn in musical direction, focusing on forfeiting themselves amongst the ‘dreaming’ part of the brain. Experimenting with smooth vocals and movie inspired backdrops, the new single ‘For The First Time’ is one of a two-part EP release expected later this June. Intended to act as an unofficial soundtrack to innocence, the first part of the EP promises to dance around naivety and feelings of un-uniformed purity.

Following a string of line up changes since their conception, the cemented group tucked themselves away for an entire summer to explore creativity with their new release. Fine tuning the findings at a home recording facility nicknamed ‘The Factory’, emerging with the first taste 'For The First Time'.

for the first time

artist: 'Bell Weather Department'
song: 'red rose' (2010 demo version)

red rose (2010 demo version)

￼Step right up & get on board with Sydney kaleidoscopic- rock/pop collective Bell Weather Department as they return with their new single ‘WORLD ON FIRE’, rolling into town February 2015.

BWD first stepped into the ring with their self-titled LP in August 2013, heralding an "addictively catchy and sonically inventive power pop" (beat.com.au) sound & a formidable & polarising live show, consistently keeping audiences up & down the east of Australia on the edge of their seats. However, numerous line-up changes & internal conflicts plagued their core members forward thinking march, placing shackles on the many attempts to release future material & complete canning of the material that was near completion, until now...

Since the end of winter 2014, the core-collective convened, putting all that behind whilst moving into a new phase to complete yet another solid body of work which emphasises on the rigorous roller coaster that is being in an independent ￼band in this day & age.

Whip-cracking lyrical madness, heart pounding beats & arpeggiating carousels of moody pop parade throughout this new age sound brought to you from Bell Weather Department. They may have moved farther into a darker, more mysterious rabbit hole but don't think for once they have forgotten where they came from. Their familiar knack for splicing indie-rocks more intelligent & progressive movements with the pop world's most notorious flag bearers still shines through - forever keeping the peeps who try to pigeon-hole them in the dark.


“World On Fire” by Bell Weather Department
will be released February 2015



￼PRODUCED BY: Bell Weather Department
￼MUSIC & LYRICS: Jacob Moore
￼RECORDED: BWD Factory & Studios 301 Sydney
￼￼￼MIXED: Simon Todkill at Studios 301, Sydney
￼MASTERED: Andrew Edgson at Studios 301, Sydney

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world on fire

track 1 - 'END OF THE YELLOW BRICK ROAD'

taken from the self-titled debut album from 'Bell Weather Department'

end of the yellow brick road

track 5 - 'RECEIVERS'

taken from the self-titled debut album from 'Bell Weather Department'

receivers

track 7 - 'LUNAR'

taken from the self-titled debut album from 'Bell Weather Department'

lunar

track 8 - 'ST. MICHAEL'S EPISODE'

taken from the self-titled debut album from 'Bell Weather Department'

The next chapter in the epic begun by the gleaming tones of single Voodoo Hoodoo, BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT’S next soundscape, ST MICHAEL’S EPISODE is here. The next twist of the BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT kaleidoscope, ST. MICHAEL’S EPISODE is a force unto itself – it will knock you over and pull you under, a sonorous seduction so sweet you won’t realise you’re drowning. 

BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT’S opulence is eye-catching and ear-ensnaring, taking you by the senses and infiltrating your soul as you stand, transfixed. Honing their métier both in the studio and in the live arena, BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT have bolstered the likes of The Holidays, Boy & Bear, Papa Vs. Pretty, The Delta Riggs and Ernest Ellis, most notably slaying their first live show with Brisbane’s DZ Deathrays a mere three weeks after their first rehearsal, their early singles earning them a double A+ from One Trick Pony. Their outset was prophetic- from day one, BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT were known as a force to be reckoned with. 

ST. MICHAEL’S EPISODE is searing and cinematic all at once – a sonic wall so resonant and lush it’s visual, time and space intertwining on the projector screen of the mind. One of the ten chapters on BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT’S debut self-titled LP, the single is ethereal and utterly Olympian, an epic drenched in bright lights and scintillating sound.  

The stage is set, the theatre of war open, the horses charging in – BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT are upon us. 

BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT
'ST. MICHAEL’S EPISODE'
TAKEN FROM THE FORTHCOMING SELF-TITLED ALBUM

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st. michael's episode

track 9 - 'WHERE THE WOLVES CAN'T FIND ME'

taken from the self-titled debut album from 'Bell Weather Department'

where the wolves can't find me

- BELL WEATHER DEPARTMENT -
a kaleidoscopic rock &/or roll collective from Sydney, Australia

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