Indie-rock revellers from Bateau Bay, Sea Legs, first emerged onto the Australian music scene in 2010. 

The good guy surfers immediately caught the attention of Triple J, who picked up the first 2 stand-alone singles for generous airplay and also managed to nab Rage ‘Indie clip of the week’ paired with a successful run on Channel V with one of their music videos. 

In this time, the group was consistently touring the East Coast, and laid down their debut EP on their travels, writing and recording the whole record on the road (in between a lot of surfing, obviously). 

The end result was ‘We Do What We Do When We Do What We Do’ which was released in 2013 and featured three singles, all receiving Triple J play and this time round breaking through the international gates.

The 4-piece indie-pop guru’s managed to receive attention from the likes of UK game changers NME and BBC 6, and picked up play on over 30 college radio stations in the US. 

The following year singles ‘Take A Little For Yourself’ and ‘Christopher Strong’ hit rotation on Triple J and charted at #3 on hypem.com through being picked up organically by blogs from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Europe. 

2014 also seen a much busier live schedule, with the 4-piece gracing festival main stages with the likes of Violent Soho, DMA’s, Ball Park Music and also hitting the road with good friends British India, Jebediah, Dune Rats and Lurch & Chief. 

After a little touring stint with The Growlers (USA) in January, the band is now putting the finishing touches on their sophomore record, which is due for release in May and will be backed up by an extensive national run in June 2015.

Songwriter and collaborative vocalist/lyricist.

In The Lonely Hour (10th Anniversary Edition) out now 🤍
https://samsmith.world/itlh10

You’ve probably seen or heard some of WASHINGTON’s stuff over the years, what with the operas and TV soundtracks and TED Talks and voicing cartoon characters and that really dark eye shadow she wore while bringing showtunes back at the ARIAs in 2010. 

Maybe you forgot during all the colour and noise that while Meg Washington can do heaps of impressive stuff, the most impressive thing she does is write great songs. Meg doesn’t blame you for that; for a while there, she almost forgot that herself. 

So here we are, then. Dark Parts. Dark Parts is the single that begets the album, but we’ll talk about that later.  A bonkers, kind-of pop song that’s in ⅞ time.  It’s the sound of pop music tearing at its own fabric, writhing in the darkness as Washington, ever the maestro, conducts this chaos from the centre.  

She worked with Sam Dixon (Sia, Adele, Meg) and Konstantin Kersting (The Jungle Giants, Mallrat, Tones and I) and the animated video is stuffed with intriguing creatures Meg’s been hand-drawing in her daydreams and wickedly assembling in real life.

Honestly? It’s just some really impressive shit.

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