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If your provisions for summer are low then the arrival of the debut EP from Brisbane four-piece, Major Leagues, may just be the right addition to your Sunday afternoon playlist. In a similar vein to their idols The Breeders and My Bloody Valentine, the garage pop outfit reminds us of a time lead by whimsical ideas and lackadaisical vocals; minus the naval-gazing introspection that goes along with shoe gaze.
Their two debut singles, Teen Mums and Endless Drain, both drenched in guitar fuzz and the infectious drone of sun-drenched pop, catapulted the four-piece in the global music blog sphere generating responses as far as the United Kingdom, Asia, Europe and South America. On the eve of their debut EP release, Weird Season, lead vocalist and guitarist, Anna Davidson, introduces new listeners to the Major Leagues family and their whiskey-coloured experiences in the studio for the first time.
- WEIRD SEASONS -
It about good feelings, bad feelings, beginnings and endings, drunken micro and the macro observations and pondering, exhaustion, growing up in rural Queensland, end-of-weekend depression, being bored and on the dole after six years of tertiary education, Cher, and cheese.
Vlada's harmonies are super pretty. Jaimee writes really great guitar lines. Jake's drums are heavenly. And my songs are super simple and short so even people with poor concentration will be able to listen to them. There’s also lots of FUZZ.
- IN THE STUDIO -
We worked on the songs with our ridiculously talented sound engineer friends Sean Cook and Miro Mackie (from Little Scout) also Timmy Morrissey (The John Steel Singers) joined us as producer. I learnt from Timmy that whiskey is good for the vocal chords. When it came around to mixing we began digging through our libraries trying to find mixing examples we liked. In the end we'd try it and sometimes end up saying, “Actually I don't want it to sound like that at all”. I remember listening to The Wipers and deciding whether or not we could take it that extreme when we mixed Creeper. Miro (our mixing engineer) would lie to us and say he was going to the studio early to catch up on some other recordings he was working on and we'd show up to him pressing play on the Silver Tides mix for the 800th time whilst making slight tweaks over and over.
- MY BLOODY VALENTINE -
I think shoe gaze is definitely an influence on us, although we don't focus on playing shoegaze music as a band. It's one of those genres like trip-hop where a single band like Portishead owned the shit out of it, and, apart from one or two other exceptions, they were the shining example of that genre. With the exception of bands like Ringo Deathstar and Tamaryn, no one recently has taken it on that well. MBV is a huge influence for us. We saw them twice while they were in Australia, and there’s that incredible attention to detail that happens when Kevin Shields is blending a whole number of effects and making something completely obnoxious and aggressive, but angelic and really sweet at the same time.
