The Cartographer 01M02 - 004

First single from the sixth album from Flicker Vertigo, 'Infinite Verve', to be released June 14, 2024

LISTEN ON SPOTIFY - https://open.spotify.com/track/6DoE1bJCoeJ1dxEbDRXNge?si=023073b9238c4015

'Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill' explores uncharted territory, fusing the dreamy grittiness of warped shoegaze guitars with the insistent groove of cosmic lo-fi house music. It's equal parts all-consuming and tantalising.

'Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill' features Flicker Vertigo's signature wall of sound, this time coming on like a tide rapidly ebbing and flowing, until it finally washes over and consumes you in the crescendo. It's a bold evolution in sound, while also drawing comparisons to the likes of bands like Tame Impala, Melody's Echo Chamber and My Bloody Valentine and to house greats like Moodymann.

Flicker Vertigo is the psychedelic rock brainchild of Nathan Nicholson, with everything written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Nicholson himself. A native of Melbourne, Australia, and currently based in Bournemouth in South Coast UK, Flicker Vertigo is music to daydream to. Bursting with crunchy psychedelic textures, sun-dappled guitar hooks swirling in an explosive wall of sound, blissed-out melodies fluttering overhead, and hypnotic, driving grooves whizzing by, plus subliminal nods to dream pop, garage psych, krautrock, shoegaze and house bubbling upon the horizon and melting into the kaleidoscopic haze. It's a dreamy, cosmic, vertigo-inducing mixture that consumes you and transmits you skyward.

Written, recorded, mixed & mastered by Nathan Nicholson
Artwork and design by Nathan Nicholson

Lyrics
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Time crawls, it's lonely,
Surreal life grows internally,
Midnight fantasies,
Dreaming of normalcy,
After dark on the run,
Hazy gazing at suburban slums,
If I squint my eyes,
The dappled lights tranquillise

Oh please carry me away on that shooting star,
When it crumbles into dust I'll land somewhere else,
Where I'm free to roam, a glimmer of hope,
Back to reality, just this grassy oasis and me

You and I, we both see,
A city shrouded in mundanity,
But we have this lonely hill,
We'll brave the winter chill,
Slowly ascending,
Suburban twilight, collective grief,
The days just crawl by by by by,
Soundtracked by dissonant sighs

I feel okay if I meditate and gaze til the angst is at bay,
Just focus on the beauty that surrounds you,
I'll escape and pretend it's 1997,
Nostalgic and free with my whole life in front of me

I'll just sit and dream these nights away,
Wake me when it ends,
Paralysed peacefully,
By midnight fantasies

Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill

Written, Produced and Performed by Grant Touchell and Chace Hedland.
Mixed & Mastered by Rob Grant @ Poons Head. 
Additional Percussion by Josh Garner

Recorded at: Hacienda de don Americo, Calbuco, Chile; and Twisted Toast Studios, Mount Hawthorn, Western Australia.

Skin and Bone

Kavanagh - Vocals
RSRVR - guitar, bass, keys, drums and mixing

Caught On The Seam (ft. Kavanhugh)

Ruban (UMO) and Kody Nielson (SILICON) present SB-03. Free download for Xmas 2015. Written and performed and recorded by Ruban and Kody. Cover pic by Jenny Nielson

SB - 03

'1-5-9' out now through @pilerats Records, on Spotify & iTunes!

https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/1-5-9-single/id1073025109

Koi Child LP out worldwide March 18th through Pilerats Records.

Pre-order : https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/koi-child/id1071760915

“The completely insane genre blending is all Koi Child. Nice work, gang”
– BBC Radio
 
“Sick flow and dirty production that sounds like nobody else in the biz right now”
– Stacy Gougoulis, triple j
 
“Neck-snapping linguistic battles untangled at every opportunity by the experimental jazz jam contingent. It's a merging that recalls the freedom of The Roots 'Illadelph Halflife' era soul/rap”
– Rolling Stone

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'1-5-9' produced by Kevin Parker & Koi Child
'1-5-9' mixed by Kevin Parker
'1-5-9' mastered by Rob Grant @ Poons Head Studio, Fremantle

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1-5-9

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Music to daydream to. Bursting with crunchy psychedelic textures, sun-dappled guitar hooks swirling in an explosive wall of sound, blissed-out melodies fluttering overhead, and hypnotic, driving grooves whizzing by, plus subliminal nods to dream pop, garage psych, krautrock, shoegaze and house bubbling upon the horizon and melting into the kaleidoscopic haze. It's a dreamy, cosmic, vertigo-inducing mixture that consumes you and transmits you skyward.

Flicker Vertigo is the psychedelic rock brainchild of Nathan Nicholson, a native of Melbourne, Australia, and currently based in Bournemouth in South Coast UK,.with everything written, recorded, mixed and mastered by Nicholson himself.

"Dreamy layer upon dreamy layer that transports you to a place and time hard to resist" - Deviate Magazine

"The ultimate saga of dreamy, blissful vibes" - the AU review

Email: flickervertigomusic@gmail.com

Midnight Fantasies Upon Prospect Hill

Flicker Vertigo

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