Kim and Leanne launch Freudian Slippers 7” single
Thursday 24th October at the Tote, Melbourne
~ from the album TRUE WEST by Kim & Leanne ~ 

‘Kim and Leanne’ is the brainchild of long time Kim Salmon collaborator, Mike Stranges, who suggested that Kim Salmon and Leanne Cowie (both from the Scientists) record an album of new Salmon/Stranges compositions.  

Stranges’ history with Salmon includes producing the Kim Salmon and the Surrealists’ album Grand Unifying Theory, as a songwriter, member and co-producer of Precious Jules, and more recently, working on The Darling Downs album In the Days When the World Was Wide and the Kim Salmon/Spencer P Jones album Runaways.

Salmon and Stranges, both Melbourne-based, wrote an album’s worth of songs and sent them to Cowie in Sydney for her consideration and input.    

Over Easter 2012, they all converged on Sound Park Studios in Melbourne and recorded 12 songs, including Cowie’s vision of a slowed down, noise drenched rendition of The Rolling Stones’ classic ‘Dead Flowers’, and road-tested the material as the aptly named “Science Test”.

Not happy with that moniker, they decided for simplicity’s sake to call this project ‘Kim and Leanne’, although the forthcoming album will include the track ‘Science Test’ as an enduring memory of the initial idea.

To coincide with the ATP Release The Bats Festival in October (featuring the Scientists), ‘Kim & Leanne’ will release their first 7”single ‘Freudian Slippers’ on Thursday October 24th at The Tote.  The album TRUE WEST is slated for release in early 2014.

This first single is a monstrously heavy slab of sonic soul punk rock and is sung from the point of view of a poor hapless fellow who has made the realisation that his girlfriend is an amateur shrink. 


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