Melbourne trio The Grogans have brought in an outside producer for the first time on their new single, Reasons.
Out via Community Music on 20 August, Reasons is the first new music from The Grogans in 2026, and the first time the band has stepped into a studio with a producer at the controls.
Across five studio albums, the trio had always worked on instinct and chemistry alone.
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- Reasons out 20 August via Community Music
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Reasons runs on a dense wall of sound that never spills into overkill. Big, open drums crash against scuzzy guitars, while traded call-and-response vocals carry the tension at the heart of the track. Steven Schram (Paul Kelly, Crowded House, TISM, Mildlife) produced and mixed it, with Joseph Carra on mastering.
Lyrically, it sits with the frustration of being overlooked by someone who always has another excuse, and being left last in line one too many times. Rather than wallow, the song flips that tension into momentum and a blunt refusal to come second.
Since forming in Melbourne in 2016, Quin Grunden, Angus Vasic and Jordan Lewis have become one of the country’s hardest-working guitar bands, blending surf rock, garage, blues and indie into their own thing.
Their 2025 album Stagger cracked the ARIA Top 10, both Money Will Chase You and Lemon To My Lime went ARIA Gold, and there’s a triple j Like A Version plus a Feature Album for Find Me A Cloud in the back catalogue.
They’ve also sold out headline runs across Australia, North America, the UK, Europe and New Zealand, shared stages with Ocean Alley, and played festivals from Yours & Owls to St Kilda Festival and the triple j 50th anniversary celebration.
To listen to Reasons just about everywhere, head here.
