Australian Punk Rock’s Finest
SHORELINES
Announce 2019 Tour Dates!
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Described by popular music blog, Wolf in a Suit, as “punk rock at its finest”, Brisbane band Shorelines, released their sophomore EP ‘Blank Pages & Broken Records’ in October and have announced that they will embark on a 2019 tour of Australia to support the release – the band’s first national headlining tour.
‘Blank Pages & Broken Records’ has helped the band notch up an impressive 621,000 streams alone on Spotify in 2018. It follows the over 1 million streams the band had achieved earlier this year since forming in 2017.
The bands’ 2017 debut “New Heights” featured in America’s number one pop/punk magazine, Alternative Press – who proclaimed the band to “soon be rising to the top of this generation’s pop-punk offerings”.
For ‘Blank Pages & Broken Records’, the band set up their own recording studio which enabled the four-piece – featuring Harry White (Lead vocals and bass guitar), Dylan Thompson (Rhythm guitar), Sean Fisher (Lead guitar) and Shaman Grayson (Drums) – to come together and collaborate as a band in a way they’ve never done before. It has given them the ability to spend time to craft this EP over the last twelve months and has enabled them to improve on how they work together and inspire a stronger bond amongst them.
“Our strengths and weaknesses are much more obvious now, so we use all of that to our advantage,” says drummer Shaman Grayson. “We’ve definitely learned a lot from our first release and continue to do so all the time”.
With the lyric “don’t speak I need to get this off my chest” opening the EP in the track ‘Problem’, it sets the tone perfectly empowering the band to voice their feelings to people they once cared about when bitterness and negativity get in the way. ‘Worry About Yourself’ ensues and talks of deflection upon any negative or unnecessary conflict by just worrying about your own path. ‘Desperation’ follows a more upbeat feel of letting go of ego and pride and removing those who try to control creativity and fundamentally hold them back. ‘Lies’ progresses the EP to an angrier and more frustrated place. It tells a story of past betrayals, tense emotions, broken friendships and dishonesty. ‘Caffeine’ is the first song where they introduce a narrative by explaining the feelings of overthinking through both “she” and “he” perspectives. ‘Drag Me Under’ is the big finish. It’s a song about accepting the pain of depression, anxiety and the feeling of being closed in by your own thoughts, because you know it will eventually become easier to deal with.
“Hopefully this will be one that listeners connect with on a deeper level as well, because it means a lot to us”.
“We feel the EP shows a descriptive, relatable and catchy insight to our minds and experiences between the release of ‘New Heights’ and now. We hope that people will enjoy the way we have expressed our journey, and will take away a positive message from this release”.
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Listen to ‘Worry About Yourself’ Below!
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Get Your Tickets For Their Upcoming Tour Right Here!
Saturday February 2 2019 – Fusebox – SYDNEY, NSW (All Ages)
Sunday February 3 2019 – Wrangler Studios – MELBOURNE, VIC (All Ages)
Saturday February 9 2019 – Nexus Arts Centre – ADELAIDE, SA (Lic. All Ages)
Saturday February 16 2019 – East Brisbane Bowls club (Lic. All Ages)
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