The feverish first single from Emilee’s forthcoming EP, 
‘Howl’ is bone-rattling, throwback rock’n’roll.

Recorded live at The Aviary Recording Studio, it features Matt Dixon on baritone guitar, Ben Franz on double bass, and Joshua Barber on drums.
As well as a slew of special guest vocalists, (William Lee, Stan Woodhouse, Oskar Herbig & Ben Woolley) it lays comfortably on a bed of heaving male backing vocals.

‘Howl’ is now available digitally, and will be on 7” vinyl from October 30.

Howl

Main street after midnight
Is silent like the grave
They've boarded up the strip club 
Just to teach us to behave

Now I see lawyers and auctioneers
Doing what they do
A place once for the many 
Has been gifted to the few

But thats to be expected
The way that these things go
The flag of progress throws
A long dark shadow

That's one more for the poolroom
where your photographs all hang.
Your lounge room has more leather 
Than a motorcycle gang.

See them coming up on every corner;
A guaranteed return
with a bunker in the basement 
Should your world begin to burn

Cos thats to be expected,
The way that these things go.
The flag of progress throws
A long dark shadow.

So sorry if I seem a little morbid
I just don't think that I can stand
Another front page photo 
Of old white men shaking hands

But thats to be expected
The way that these things go
The flag of progress throws
A long dark shadow

Flag Of Progress

Is it a broomstick? Is it a lamppost? By God, it’s Skyscraper Stan! All ribs and fingers, after a brief run in with school and limited success with women he picked up a guitar and discovered the only thing he was any good at was writing songs.

“Call it Troubadour Rock ‘n’ Roll” Says Skyscraper Stan of the music he makes.  At times gentle and soothing, at others, tough and grinding, it’s a heartfelt, lyrically driven expedition through the world as it appears to a six and a half foot walking skeleton who “sings like wet cement channeling Nick Cave” and ”dances like a drowning huntsman”. His band, the Commission Flats, is a dysfunctional family affair comprising his cousin, the beautiful Sharard sisters and possibly the hottest rhythm section in Melbourne today. The songs are what brought them together and the performance is what sets them apart. 


Flag Of Progress

Skyscraper Stan

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