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#1 Dads - About Face (LP | 2014)

Pre-order About Face LP, out Fri 8th Aug (Pieater)
12” Vinyl & CD 
US - http://flythelightrecords.bandcamp.com
Aus/Row - http://musicyourdadsmake.bandcamp.com/album/about-face
Digital
https://itunes.apple.com/album/about-face/id882631659

#1 Dads (formerly Dads) is the solo moniker of Tom Iansek, the front man for acclaimed alt-pop band Big Scary. The project is a way for Iansek to remain creative between Big Scary album cycles and touring, and to find a place for songs that would remain homeless outside of his more well-known outfit.

About Face has been built over the past two years. Songs about mundanity, songs about desire, songs about loss… themes sung about for centuries, and delivered in a restrained and humble manner on this new LP.
The most notable development from 2011’s Man Of Leisure is a new foray into collaboration, a taste for which Iansek developed while working with external musicians on Big Scary's Not Art, and skill which he honed through his work as a producer for other artists. In his words, co-writing was “a way to lighten the burden of writing/recording/mixing/producing an album by myself”. Indeed, once the riffs for So Soldier and Return To were written, Iansek’s mind took him to Ainslie Wills’ and Tom Snowden’s voices respectively, rather than his own. 

1. My Rush
2. So Soldier (feat. Ainslie Wills)
3. Camberwell
4. Return To (feat. Tom Snowdon)
5. Nominal
6. For Randy Robinson and Cassidy
7. Blood Pt. 2
8. God Can Promise (with Airling)
9. Homeward Found

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#1 Dads - Return To (feat. Tom Snowdon) | (About Face LP | 2014)

Pre-order About Face LP, out Fri 8th Aug (Pieater)
12” Vinyl & CD 
US - flythelightrecords.bandcamp.com
Aus/Row - musicyourdadsmake.bandcamp.com/album/about-face
Digital
itunes.apple.com/album/about-face/id882631659

Producer, songwriter, arranger and vocalist, Tom Iansek, has unveiled an all-new single under his #1 Dads solo moniker. “So Soldier” – co-written and performed with Melbourne songstress, Ainslie Wills – shudders with a timeless pop mystique.
"So Soldier started as this Smiths-inspired chord progression that Tom had sent to me as a possible collaboration idea,” says Melbourne singer-songwriter, Ainslie Wills, who lent her vocals to the track.
“We jammed it a couple of times and came up with a draft of some simple lyrical ideas that ended up sticking. Tom was so chilled and lovely to work with. He has this quiet confidence that puts you at ease which is so important when you are collaborating with someone for the first time."
The new single is the second to arise from #1 Dads’ forthcoming album, ‘About Face’ – due 8th August on Pieater through Inertia. The first single,“Return To (feat. Tom Snowdon)”, was released in May to a rapturous response from critics and radio alike…

Conceived as a way for Iansek to remain creative between Big Scary album cycles and touring, the new album from #1 Dads has been built over the past two years. Songs about mundanity, songs about desire, songs about loss… themes sung about for centuries, and delivered in a restrained and humble manner on this new LP.
 
The most notable development from 2011’s Man Of Leisure is a new foray into collaboration, which Iansek developed a taste for whilst working with external musicians on Big Scary's Not Art. In his words, co-writing was “a way to lighten the burden of writing/recording/mixing/producing an album by myself”.  Indeed, once the riffs for “So Soldier” and “Return To” were written, Iansek’s mind took him to Ainslie Wills’ and Tom Snowden’s voices respectively, rather than his own.
 
The critical reception of Big Scary’s ‘Not Art’ instilled more confidence in the developing producer, and has created work for Iansek with bands such as Step-Panther, Airling and Hockey Dad. These skills have been brought to ‘About Face’ in its subtle textures, signature use of dynamics, retro guitar lines and intimate vocal takes.

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#1 Dads - So Soldier (feat. Ainslie Wills) | (About Face LP | 2014)

Pre-order About Face LP, out Fri 8th Aug (Pieater)
12” Vinyl & CD 
US - flythelightrecords.bandcamp.com
Aus/Row - musicyourdadsmake.bandcamp.com/album/about-face
Digital
itunes.apple.com/album/about-face/id882631659

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#1 Dads - Camberwell (About Face LP | 2014)

#1 Dads - Nominal (About Face LP | 2014)

#1 Dads - My Rush (About Face LP | 2014)