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Beloved Naarm/Melbourne art rocker Lewis Coleman (he/him) proudly reveals his new single and video “Courts”, a delicate and deeply personal chronicle through love and loss in real-time, rippled with Colemans’ idiosyncratic and clever observations. Co-produced with his good friend Sam Cromack (Ball Park Music), “Courts” lays bare the anxieties and feelings of detachment and vertigo that arise from losing love. 

A staple of the Naarm/Melbourne music community, Lewis Coleman makes music that is “heady, bewitching, and ultimately immersive” (Clash Magazine). Following last month's “Indigo”, a bop that “touches a nerve” (Dave Ruby Howe, Triple J), “Courts” is the latest from his sophomore album Offline, due out on October 27 via Beloved Recordings.

Reflecting on the song, “Courts is the stage of grieving when you desperately try to clutch back at something that has gone, washing over anything that was wrong”, says Coleman. Lyrically, it speaks to a disconnected state of mind, an intersection between limbo and self-realisation - “Wait a minute, don’t you love me as much? What if I just changed it up, made it work?”. Coleman journeys through inner dialogue, delicately reconciling moments in his past and arriving with bittersweet clarity as he ponders “Love’s not that clear / Love’s not that fair”.

Coleman had planned to play more shows around Method Of Places but, like many of us in the early days of the pandemic, he spent a lot of time alone instead. He insulated himself in his bungalow studio, crafting what would become, for him, a collection of songs that celebrate a more confident and daring side. His goals were simple, perhaps an antidote to the time: Create “a record that encourages the listener to energise themselves and move forward. It’s music to get out of bed for.” With most of the instrumentation and lyrics laid down by Coleman in Naarm, a five-day stint in Meanjin/Brisbane with dear friend Sam Cromack of Ball Park Music granted Coleman time to shape and oxygenate the structure of Offline and its lyrical form. What emerges is a collection of songs that both melodically and lyrically conjure imagery of someone looking inwards to expand outwards. 

“There’s always going to be a particular soft, introspective character to the way I go about putting music together. But here I am leaning against that discovering how colour can be brought out of the blues and into the reds”

Between records, Coleman has become a preeminent collaborator, producing music for and performing with Mo’Ju, Ruby Gill, Kat Edwards, Gabriella Cohen, Darvid Thor, Chitra and Coda Chroma. A generous, well (be)loved and similarly underrated musical gem in our community, he has comfortably come into his own. Offline is a strut with Coleman and his friends, it’s a top button undone and coarse indigo sheets, it's creased and complex like Coleman and can’t be ironed out.

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