My personal sounds ranging from post rock to ambient & metal styling.  Recorded using an mbox 2, PRS custom 24, Rickenbacker 4003 bass & BFD drum software.  Mixed and mastered in Cubase 6 with various T Racks plugins.

Loiter and linger… Lick at wounds…

Blush or burn… Become a better you.

Songwriting and storytelling lie at the core of Brisbane-based alternative folk group, Elbury.  Born in a brick-and-concrete pillbox on the side of Red Hill, as an acoustic folk duo.  Awkward tunes in minor keys; awkward lyrics, obscure themes – the standard output of any new band trying to mark out a piece of original territory.  Through the churn of the low-profile/no-profile original music scene, Elbury persisted – knowing that a band can find their own sound and beat a path forward on their own terms.  

With the introduction of bass, drums and synth in recent years, the band have shifted from traditional acoustic folk to a darker alt-folk-rock sound, including progressive and ambient elements.  But the music, at heart, remains the same:  honest observations, translated into verse, and multiple musical elements jostled into occasional cooperation.  The band defy easy categorisation, shifting between mellow jazz interludes, rollicking folk-rock triumphs and intricate Baroque passages.  Winsome melodies take centre stage, with three-part harmonies and a close weave of organic and digital textures wrapped around.  Without the power and bombast of harder styles of music, the beauty of the phrase and the arrangement becomes make-or-break.

In concert, Elbury’s music is energetic, constantly surprising and always engaging.  Songs (and sets) that lead the listener through moods, through lightness and darkness, through lush warmth and brittle emptiness.  Deceptive complexity that rewards close attention.  And even the odd danceable number!

Nikolas is a musician, producer, composer and mix and recording engineer. His current musical preoccupation is Crow Do Not Loiter Here, a project written, recorded, mixed and produced by his own hands, ears and heart. He has previously played bass in Plastic Wood and guitar in Please Deface This Artwork. He also works as a freelance designer and artist under the guise of Ravens At Odds.

The Wretched Creatures is a loud and heavy stoner rock trio from Brisbane, Australia. An organic riff-machine capable of producing a fuzzy mixture of thick sludge, catchy stoner hooks and lysergic soaked stoner doom!

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