Jack Ladder's third album, HURTSVILLE, is his first featuring The Dreamlanders; Laurenz Pike, Kirin J Callinan & Donny Benet. It's Ladder's first album in close to three years and follows 2008's Australian Music Prize nominated and Red Bull awarded Love Is Gone. But something happened here, and the overall mood and sonic feel of HURTSVILLE is distinctly different from his previous releases. The good time Motown rattle and shake is replaced by a sparse cinematic sound that describes the tortured Australian landscape as much as it does the failings of the human heart. First single .Cold Feet' arrives with chiming guitars and droning synths, thick with memories of 80's Australiana and a lyrical gravitas unheard since Ron Peno fronted Died Pretty. Recorded by Burke Reid at the Blackburn Estate in Yass, a turn of the century castle during the dead of winter. HURTSVILLE will creep under your skin and resonate to your core like the reverb soaked guitars, throbbing rhythm ace beats and floating string machines that filter through Jack Ladder's stories.
- Beautiful Sound
- Cold Feet
- Hurtsville
- Position Vacant
- Short Memory
- Blinded By Love
- Dumb Love
- Giving Up The Giving Up
