You are a kaleidoscope song 20188/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Those 12 singles + some extra tracks are the songs that comprise Kaleidoscope Eyes and we feel they’re some of our best songs to date. By releasing a single every month, we didn’t have time to care about how well a song was doing or how it was performing in the charts, we just got to work on the next release. There’s also a tonne of pressure riding on the performance of a “lead” single and how much of its success relates to the album – it can be very stressful. It’s just such a long build up that by the time it’s released, you might have moved on as artists, so by us doing it this way, you know that you’re hearing the band at their most current. For example, “Die Young” took 10 months to release from the moment it was written. We were also getting fed up with how long it took to build up a single for release in the conventional way. Releasing every track on the album as its own single solved that problem. ![]() People seem to focus on the singles, and the rest of the album gets somewhat glossed over as a bit of an afterthought, it’s not given as much attention. The reason we decided to do this was because the way people consume music has changed so dramatically in recent years. It was a profoundly rewarding and liberating way to release our music. GS: So at the start of 2020, right before the pandemic crippled the global economy, we decided that we were going to convert a room in our house into a mini studio, and spend our year writing, recording and releasing a song every month (with a video) and this would eventually become our third album. It was a hell of a challenge but looking back it was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. You’d already released “Die Young”, but what made you decide that this was the way you wanted to make and release music? You first announced back in February of last year that you’d be releasing a new single each month. We then started 2019 with a fresh outlook and feeling inspired to start a new album cycle. I think we took about three months off to decompress, which was lovely. We needed to give ourselves a chance to soak up the creative sponge, so to speak – enjoy some of life’s experiences. The Watching the Sky album release and subsequent tour in 2018 was a massive undertaking, and it’s all just so fast paced that once you finally hit the ground back home, you definitely need to give yourself a little time away from the band and the music to stop your head from spinning. ![]() GS: I think we definitely needed some time to clear our heads. Once everything had wrapped up with Watching the Sky, what was the initial plan? Were you aiming to get right back into new music, or were you wanting to decompress and attack album number three with some clear heads? Over the last two and a bit years since we started recording this album, we’ve had a Eurovision competition, some vocal surgery, a songwriting trip to Sweden, a trip to Nashville, LA, and NYC, we’ve played on the main runway of the Gold Coast airport, we’ve performed the AFL Grand Final and released 15 singles! To say we’re excited to finally be at this point of releasing the album would be an understatement. GS: Thanks so much! It has been quite the effort. It’s been a rather long journey from your last album to here, so it stands to reason you must be feeling incredibly excited to finally get it out there? With Kaleidoscope Eyes officially released into the world tomorrow, we spoke to George about the path to this new album, and all the highs and lows in between.įirstly, congratulations on the new album. Not only were there professional highlights – including submitting a song for Eurovision – Australia Decides, and widespread global touring – but there were some personal lowlights – including an uncertainty over the band’s future following a throat and vocal chord injury for George Sheppard.īut despite these obstacles the group were forced to endure, they’ve come out the other end with one of their most euphoric and anthemic records to date, with Kaleidoscope Eyes not only serving as an example of their musical skills, but of their resilience and desire to overcome. The follow-up to 2018’s chart-topping Watching the Sky, the preceding years had been nothing short of gruelling for the familial band. Just weeks later though, the events of 2020 changed the gameplan significantly, resulting in more than an ample amount of uncertainty, while their release plans gave Sheppard something to focus on.Īs the music continued to arrive, and Sheppard found themselves taking a longer break away from the live stage than they had planned, it soon became clear that what we were hearing was the lead-up to the band’s long-awaited third album, Kaleidoscope Eyes. ![]() By February, the group had embarked on a massively ambitious project which would see them record and release a new song each month. ![]()
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