Big Scary's new EP "Twin Rivers", featuring remixes from The Antlers, Menomena and Dan The Automator, plus a collaboration with Jonti. Released Nov 12, 2013 through Barsuk (World-Wide) and Pieater (Aus/NZ).
Keep an ear out for Big Scary's album "Not Art", due out March 25th, 2014.

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Big Scary - In My View (Me and You LP | 2022)

Big Scary - Firefly (Me and You LP | 2022)

Big Scary - All To Pieces (Me and You LP | 2022)

Big Scary - Lonely Age (Me and You LP | 2022)

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Airling - Ouroboros (Love Gracefully EP | 2014)

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Tom Snowdon - Protection (Flood at the Heart Two-Track | 2022)

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Drums performed by Jim Rindfleish

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#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)

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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)

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

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

Jane Tyrrell - Wild Waters (Tom Iansek Remix | 2014)

Airling - Wasted Pilots (Love Gracefully EP | 2014)

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Airling - Stallin' (Single | 2015)

Big Scary - Over Matter (Animal LP | 2016)

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Big Scary - The Opposite of Us (Animal LP | 2016)

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Christopher Port - Before (feat. Airling) | (Vetement EP | 2016)

Airling - Move Me (Hard to Sleep, Easy to Dream LP | 2017)

Big Scary - Lone Bird (Animal LP | 2016)

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Christopher Port - Sum 1 ('His Eye Is On The Sparrow' Edit) | (My Love Two-Track | 2016)

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Airling - Not a Fighter (Hard to Sleep, Easy to Dream LP | 2017)

No Mono - Butterflies (Islands part 1 LP | 2018)

No Mono - Violence Broken (Islands part 1 LP | 2018)

No Mono - Tidal Fight (Islands part 1 LP | 2018)

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LYRICS: No Mono 'Keep On' (Islands part 2 LP | 2019)
I fall in all you do
A glade in the garden, fog in the dark night
I fall to stay with you, bathe in the cold earth
Wait for the morning

You set the tone and I’ll be alright
You set the flame by the doorway let it be my light
You set the tone and I’ll be alright
You said the cold couldn’t burn us
We’re alright, alright

Can I be your fascination all night?
Cos you hold the feeling in the room
But you want the beat, I need the tune
Hoping the pieces they’ll just fall right
Whatever happened, me and you.

No idea what I’ll do
Stand on the corner, hang in the moonlight
You cable-tied my ideas
Told me to be forthright
I’ll go check my eyesight

You set the tone and I’ll be alright
You set the flame by the doorway let it be my light
You set the tone and I’ll be alright
You said the cold couldn’t burn us

Can I be your fascination all night
Cos you hold the feeling in the room
But you want the beat, I need the tune
Hoping the pieces, they’ll just fall right
Stand at your door I felt that cold like
Like I’m a ghost inside your room
And I’ll never go back home
Cos I don’t wanna be alone

(I gotta keep on myself)

Just cut the cord and I’ll be alright
Just cut the cord, cut the cord

Can I be your fascination all night
Cos you hold the feeling in the room
But you want the beat, I need the tune
Hoping the pieces, they’ll just fall right
Stand at your door I felt that cold like
Like I’m a ghost inside your room
And I’ll never go back home
Cos I can stand to be alone

I hear the echo down the hall
Like you were never there at all
Just leave me down here

No Mono - Keep On (Islands part 2 LP | 2019)

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LYRICS: No Mono - Finally (Islands LPs | 2019)
Did the mountain start to fall
Did the crowded streets I walked in
Find me against their feet
Far out, gee whiz
I can’t see it
For the fifth time I woke up
With a wooded head, oh god I felt stuck
And finally, I had had too much of me
Finally, I had had too much of me
Finally
Finally
So I was the last one out of bed
Now I’m swollen with the river
That changed me
Oh my, gee whiz
I’m starting to feel it
And finally, I had had too much of me
Finally, it was all my eyes could see
Finally, waking up this thylacine
Finally, I was all I had to be
Finally
Finally

No Mono - Finally (Islands LPs | 2019)

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LYRICS: #1 Dads - Another Day
Honest with myself yeh I’m all fessed up
Now I’m tripping to the country to see my lot
Picking up the pieces I’m all messed up can’t save it for another day.
 
Feeling kinda lazy I just woke up
Sipping on my juice yeh there’s just enough
Articulating feelings that kinda rough
I’ll save it for another day.
 
How many wrongs to right?
I’m doing all I can to stay upright
 
Lay down just don’t lay down
Find a little pep, you can take another step
Lay down just don’t lay down
Let this be a little song for you.
 
Howling like the wind through a city block
I’m fixing all my fixes to get me fixed up
Smiling like a doll on a dusty shelf
Let’s save it for another day.
 
All this instant news feels so old to me
These threads of conversation unstitching me
I see chatter isn’t helpful if it’s from your teeth
Save me from another day
 
How many songs to write?
I’m doing all I can to stay upright
 
Lay down just don’t lay down
Find a little pep you can take another step
Lay down just don’t lay down
Let this be a little song for you.

#1 Dads - Another Day (Golden Repair LP | 2020)

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LYRICS: #1 Dads - Freedom Fighter (Golden Repair LP | 2020)
Falling on my knees, throw my head back as I land among the pages
I’m a blank for those who read me, I’m a song for all the ages
Unrequited love’s my favourite, gets me dancing on the stages
But only ever thinking of you.
 
You breathe into my lungs, I hold it in then breathe out colour breathe out fire
Heaven lives, or so I’m told, it lives for those who cross the mire
But I am only ever too late, and silence is the perfect sound
Whenever you ask I’ll say:
 
Even if I have it now, doesn’t mean I’ll have it always
Patience is a funny noun, it’ll keep you waiting all day.
 
Help me we’re all sinking, all afraid I’ve got to thinking all the time
It keeps blowing me off course, but there’s a storm in every mind
Sending trembles down my fingers, sending shivers down my spine
I’m only ever thinking of you.
 
Yeh even if I worry now, you will tell me never too late
My smile is a funny frown, you said I got it ‘round the wrong way.
 
Forget all the feelings, none of it belongs to me
I’m going to figure this out, figure this out
Torn between your dealings and the glances you keep stealing
Let me figure this out, figure this out
I sunk into the sea of your love drinking it down deep
There is no figuring out
 
Falling on my knees, throw my head back as I land among the pages
I’m a blank for those who read me, I’m a song for all the ages
But I am only every too late, and silence is the perfect sound.
 
Even if I have it now, doesn’t mean I’ll have it always
Patience is a funny noun, it’ll keep you waiting all day
Yeh even if I worry now, you will tell me never too late
My smile is a funny frown, you said I got it ‘round the wrong way.

#1 Dads - Freedom Fighter (Golden Repair LP | 2020)

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#1 Dads - Life, Oh Life (Man of Leisure LP | 2011)

Big Scary - Thinking About You (The Big Scary Four Seasons EPs | 2010)

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Big Scary - Luck Now (Not Art LP | 2013)

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LYRICS: Maple Glider - As Tradition
Love is just a word I have learned I may use at my own expense
Bible study earned me the right to be alone, in my own defence

Come to me pretty, pull back my limbs
It's the oldest tradition known to my skin

I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want

Love is just a word, love is just a word, love is just a word
Don't say that you mean it, come on baby, we both know that that's absurd
(when you love me like this, when I can't move my lips)

Come to me pretty, hold back my arms
It's the oldest tradition known to my heart

I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want

You want me soft
You and God baby love me the best
When I’m laid to rest
And only my body is left

Come to me pretty, pull back my limbs
It's the oldest tradition known to my skin

I can be soft, when I am disarmed
I can be just what you want

Maple Glider - As Tradition (To Enjoy is the Only Thing LP | 2021)

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LYRICS:
There are no words I have to say 
In this moment
You're asking me if I'm okay
But I need time to process
All these things that make me lose my focus 
And all these parts of me I had not noticed

Before you came 
Before you came

I know you think I'm being cold
But I can't bear to look at you today
‘Cause every single time I do I fear
It might be the last time that you'll see me this way

Way 
Way

But I guess that's how we learn
By setting fire to things that bring us life 
Before we've got to watch them burn 
And so I'll say goodbye
Because I'd rather kill a good thing 
Than wait for it to die

Die 
Die

So draw your lines upon my skin 
For the very final time
And I will colour all them in
And retrace them until I
Can't remember what it feels like Like

Like 
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