Thematically anchored in the netherworlds of dealers and degenerates who idle away their daytimes in cheap motels, Melbourne indie-rock act Western Stars' debut single 'Mexican Motel'  affectionately harks back to the lackadaisical heyday of slacker-rock deities Pavement and Dinosaur Jr, pairing a hearty blast of paranoiac guitar solo overload with Xanaxed pop vocals.

Mexican Motel

WESTERN STARS LAUNCH DEBUT SINGLE ‘MEXICAN MOTEL’

Nine months after Melbourne indie-rock four-piece Western Stars (featuring members and ex-members of Telecom, The Cheats, Riff Random and Shooting at Unarmed Men) peacocked into a recording studio to make a record, the band’s debut single Mexican Motel is out of quarantine. Thematically anchored in the netherworlds of dealers and degenerates who idle away their daytimes in cheap motels, the song affectionately harks back to the lackadaisical heyday of slacker-rock deities Pavement and Dinosaur Jr, pairing a hearty blast of paranoiac guitar solo overload with Xanaxed pop vocals.


 


The basic tracks for the song were recorded at Headgap Studios in Preston (Melbourne) last winter, with guitarist/singer-songwriter Nick Roe wailing licks whilst confined to an in-studio bed with a broken back and a brainful of painkillers.  That studio experience took place under the searching ears of engineer Robbie Adams (The Bowers, Kamikaze Trio, River of Snakes), and merely catalysed the onset of an epic gestation period; a period in which around 70 tracks were overdubbed – on iPads in cars, in an abandoned Indian restaurant, above an old morgue and during a one week-long narcotic-fuelled bedroom session. 

More singles and live shows are scheduled to precede a debut album later this year but for now, Mexican Motel is out of the closet and bracing to fend for itself in the overcrowded zoo of iTunes-land. 

Mexican Motel is released digitally on May 5.
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Contact: Email: westernstarsband@gmail.com; reception=Nick: 0422 494 086
Band page: https://soundcloud.com/westurnstars/mexican-motel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/westernstarsband (includes an old bio)
Band: Nick Roe (guitarist/singer-songwriter); Julian Tovey (guitarist/singer-songwriter); Josh Jennings (bass/singer-songwriter); Tom Cooper (drums)
Single art work: Goran Fak.
Produced by: Western Stars
Mixed and engineered by: Robbie Adams
Instruments used: Fenders Jaguar, B-Bender, Telecaster, Stratocaster, Precision Bass, Rickenbacker, Grey Picks, Tama Drums, Wooden Sticks, Shiny Cymbals.


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