Eyes Ninety, Brisbane, Australia.

s/t LP out via Swashbuckling Hobo
https://swashbucklinghoborecords.bandcamp.com/album/eyes-ninety

Second album on the way.

Brisbane label releasing quality records every now and then since 2005 or so. Chinese Burns, Eat Laser Scumbag, Fancy Boys, Filth Dimension, Shark Hunts, Sweet Dreams, Science Villains etc... destroymankind.blogspot.com.au

Hosted by music journalist Doug Wallen, Waste the Alphabet showcases new independent Australian music. It airs 6-8pm Tuesdays on 88.0 Indigo FM in Beechworth. Podcasts: http://indigofmradio.podomatic.com. Playlists: https://facebook.com/wastethealphabet

“Sensory Projects; a label that has consistently surprised and delighted the ears, by digging up and bringing to us some of the most incredible music that you would never otherwise hear.” INPRESS 

Sensory Projects (www.sensoryprojects.com.au) began in 1996 as the home of ‘Sadness Is In The Sky’; a music ‘zine focused on leftfield and (primarily) independent music culture. A long-time fascination with record labels found Sensory Projects, admiring labels like Spunk!, Drag City, Thrill Jockey, Warp, Fat-Cat, Trifekta, Kranky, Constellation, Domino, Mego, Remote Control, and Leaf, and encouraged by the offer of a distribution deal with Sydney company Inertia, dipping its toes into a new World.

Sensory Projects (the label) fell into being during 2000 and our first label release (Kammerflimmer Kollektief’s amazing Maander) came in March 2001. Time has sped past since that time, the label working with a roster of artists including The Tigers, Hood, Disaster Plan, The Rectifiers, International Karate, Pretty Boy Crossover, Symbiotic, MONO, and The Sand Pebbles, as well the likes of Pivot, City City City, Minus Story, Damien Jurado, Mirah, Mike Noga, Urdog, Shearwater, Object, plus Eluvium, Canon Blue, Panoptique Electrical, Children Of The Wave, The Declining Winter, The Sun Blindness, The Ancients, Love Connection, MUM SMOKES, Bruce Peninsula, Mystery Twin, White Woods, Faux Pas, Rat Vs Possum, and Great Earthquake.
In 2011 Sensory Projects celebrated its tenth birthday with releases by Pets With Pets, Rat Vs Possum, Aa, David Evans and Lost Animal. 2012 bought new releases from Sensory Projects by Love Connection, Max Crumbs, Pageants, New War, NO ZU, Lehmann B Smith, and Children of the Wave.

Sensory Projects is based in Melbourne, Australia. 




Green Mules started out as a solo project after the break-up of my band, Shack of Bells in 2014. I’d written and roughly recorded a collection of songs in an unused storeroom at the school where I teach a few years beforehand, during lunch breaks and free lessons. They didn’t really fit the sound of Shack of Bells, so I posted them on a Myspace page and left them to gather digital dust. 

Many years ago, I saw Mick Turner from the Dirty Three playing solo and sharing a bill with Papa M (aka David Pajo). Turner used a looping pedal to build layer-upon-layer of guitars and melodica. Shortly afterwards, while living in Japan, I picked up a copy of Papa M’s album, ‘Whatever, Mortal’ and its raw, homespun quality inspired me to write my own roughly-hewn collection of songs.

Chris joined me on drums in early 2015 and we recorded a five-song EP in a rehearsal room over the course of a weekend. The end result is Green Mules Play Labradorable. It was released just in time for a fifteen-band bill we’d organised called Happy Trails. Taking place in a disused railway shed in the small town of Creswick, fifteen minutes from Ballarat, Happy Trails drew together a diverse community of artists from Ballarat and Melbourne. We did it again in 2016 at the Eastern too.

We recorded our second EP, Tinyville, in January of 2017, but it wasn’t released until December of that year. Again, we recorded it ourselves over a weekend using very basic equipment. Most of the guitar parts were looped on the fly so we could save time. 

We recently finished recording our third EP. It’s our most plaintive, introspective collection of songs to date, documenting the minutiae of outer suburban middle-age life. I invested in some recording software, so I was able to track the guitars and synths at home over a longer period than we’d usually allow ourselves to record. Chris’ drums, however, were again recorded in a rehearsal space over a weekend. For the first time, we invited friends and family to make guest appearances. My wife and daughters appear on the record playing flute, singing backing vocals and telling stories, as does our friend, Pete, who runs the rehearsal studio we use; he plays tuba on San Roque. Our friend, Brett mixed and mastered the album and he added some harmonica drones and guitar squalls too.

Sadly, Chris called it a day shortly after we finished recording. I’m currently making beats and rehearsing a solo iteration of  Green Mules so I can play live shows.

Lymes is following