Recorded at 'The Chook Shed'

Mixed by James Young

Mastered by Mikey Young

Produced by Zombeaches

Additional Vocals by Dominique Garrard

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Occasionally in life you’re given an unlikely reprieve. Something bad that was meant to be didn’t happen. It’s an unusual feeling. Your body is taught and tired while your mind sends it a message to be free.

This contrast is really what makes the title track from Zombeaches debut album, Cheers to the Future, something clutch-able. It’s rough and bare. Iconically Australian. Tacit and sharp. But James Young weaves a monotonous, emotional droll very beautifully around a band that is drilled and together and pushing everything right to the front. 

Because of this dynamic between the intense nature of the story and the heavy, lead foot music - it feels like what it’s saying. You feel a sense of someone whose been given a reprieve. You understand that if, prepared for someone you love to die, but then told no, you might experience a sense of being born again. 

Cheers to the Future was written by Nick Krstic, James Young, and Jay Gargaro, and recorded in a sailing club close to home in Victoria, looking out over Western Port Bay towards bass strait. Recorded in a single take with no overdubs, about a moment that is simultaneously the end of a great struggle and a rebirth.

In such a hard time it’s nice to hear a band say, in the context of their lives, Cheers to the Future.

Written by Jay Gargaro, Nick Krstic and James Young 
Performed by Zombeaches 
Additional Saxophone by Raven Mahon 
Engineered, Mixed and Mastered by Mikey Young 
Cover Art by Zoe Whitson

Cheers To The Future

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Zombeaches are celebrated for a live performance that whisks everyone into the present. It’s loose, it’s tongue in cheek. It’s powerful. It brings together groups of friends who want to throw any sense of deep emotion and dance in frenzied reverence.

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