Define your genre in five words or less:
Mega-harmony alt-country and jazz-jacked pop.
When’s the gig and with who?
We’re playing two sets of our own songs at the Post Office Hotel in Coburg on Thursday April 11.
How long have you been gigging and writing?
As Strine Singers, a year, but we’ve worked together in other bands before. Our band is two sets of siblings, so we’ve all been singing and making music together forever. Mick and Lou started singing harmony together since they were kids, and Ryan and Larissa started out making radio shows on cassettes when they were five and six-years-old and they used to improvise all the music.
What inspires or has influenced your music the most?
Larissa writes all the songs and says she is always trying to paint pictures or set scenes with lyrics. She is getting some international recognition these days as a lyricist. We’ll draw on anything for inspiration really, and often we’ll improvise harmonies when we play live, which means really dialling into each other for inspiration. Being siblings also influences the way we work. We can argue without it being the end of the world, mostly about creative decisions and football. We push each other. It’s a good quality control measure.
Tell us about the last song you wrote.
We just started working on a new song set in San Francisco and the mountains of British Columbia. Its got this climbing vocal melody in the verses and some really dark bluesy guitars, creating this kind of psychedelic West Coast vibe. The imagery in the song is pretty epic, and the harmonies are intense! We’re going to try it out at the Posty gig.
Do you have any record releases to date? What are they? Where can I get them?
We just finished an EP called Counter Canter which you can download via our website, or you can buy a copy from Thornbury Records or Polyester.
