First single from the bands EP 'Mourning Birds'.
Produced and recorded by Magoo at Applewood Studios.

Disaster Flower Bloom

Feed Ourselves to the Wolves

Official release 4th of April. Taken from the bands upcoming sophomore album.

Eliza Battle

2017

Written and performed by The Oyster Murders
Produced by Magoo

Words...
shake your hand
meet yourself
on a darker night

don't get down
don't give in
turn off the light

shake your hand
only yourself
keeps you up at night

on a lake
nowhere to stand
if it were sand

you'd sink

Shake your hand. . . 

show great strength
but you're still bent 
from your crown
lengthways down

it's not a frown
you're upside down
but they won't get it
you don't sweat it

meet yourself
meet yourself
and get up at night
don't get down
don't give up

and you'll be alright

shake your hand. . . 

shake it, shake it,
till it feels
shake it, shake it,
till you feel 
shake it, shake it,
till you feel
anything at all

Shake Your Hand

Music by The Oyster Murders
Produced by Magoo.
From the album: He'd Heard of a Place

Body of Water

Holiday swimming through the lake
a body of water I can't sink
but I fall yes I fall asleep
at the wheel I can dream of you
on the moon I won't float away

wake me, wake me

no one ever said it would be that easy 
no one ever said it would this way
no one ever said it would be that easy
a body of water at the center of it all

On my way driving to the lake
I hit my head on the dash again
and I fall, yes I fall asleep
Lovely eyes at the store counter
please prescribe a pill to make me up

wake me, wake me

no one ever said it would be that easy 
no one ever said it would this way
no one ever said it would be that easy
a body of water at the center of it all

Holiday swimming through the lake
a body of water I can't sink

and I fall yes I fall asleep
at the wheel I can dream of you

Body of Water

Opening track from our upcoming album 'Winter of the ELectric Sun. Out late August/early September.

Ink (Eva created sad ink)

Our debut album.. now available through our bandcamp page. Will be available on Itunes Spotify, Amazon Cd Baby etc mid September.

Spectre of a landfill

Title track from the band's upcoming album which will be released the 1st of November.

He'd Heard of a Place

Sophomore album from The Oyster Murders, produced by ARIA award winning  producer Magoo.

You Follow

Turritopsis Dohrnii

Solaris

Let It Burn

Don't Suffer Kate

Distraction

Dakota, You Better Call The Ambulance

The Oyster Murders are an Australian alternative rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 2008. The band is fronted by founding member and lead  singer/guitarist Grant Redgen; along with his wife Wendy Redgen (vocals/keys), Shaun Edwards (drums) and Chris McPherson (bass). 

Heavily influenced by the densely layered guitar sounds, and strong melodic vocals produced by the 90’s and now.The music straddles a wide variety of genres whilst still maintaining the eerie sweetness, characteristic of their sound.

The beginning of 2012 was spent working with multi ARIA award winning producer Lachlan ‘Magoo’ Goold carefully crafting their ambitious long-player Winter of the Electric Sun. Upon the release of the album, the band accepted an invitation to play the CMJ Music Marathon in New York City. Subsequently the band's LP received airplay on over 100 college radio stations in the US, featuring singles ‘It Might be Real’, ‘The Water in Your Blood’ and ‘The Sleeper’s Heart’. 

At the conclusion of the bands U.S. trip the group began working on new material and soon returned to the studio in early 2013. The resulting recordings, being the bands EP Mourning Birds. For this release the group built on their existing sound and took inspiration from bands as far ranging as The Flaming Lips and early Mazzy Star through to Galaxie 500 and David Bowie.  

In 2015 the band headed back into the studio with Magoo as producer once again and began work on their Sophomore Album. The latest stand alone single taken from these sessions, ‘When you’re wrong’ is a wash of distorted pop melodies, overdriven guitars and analog synths. Recorded and mixed using both low and hi-fi technique. 

The Oyster Murders

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