Deep Sea Arcade
After four long years hidden in the darkness, Deep Sea Arcade are set to return in momentous fashion with their sophomore album, Learning To Fly.
During their time out of the spotlight Nic McKenzie assures fans that they weren’t simply holiday, but rather they were “working hard writing around 50 to 60 songs” for the new record.
You might ask ‘why write so many songs?’ As Nic explained, it was because they “wanted to go in a slightly different direction to the first album; so that means it can take awhile because you might need to write that many songs before you find the right ones.”
Hearing a band say this can be concerning to fans, but Nic stresses that this record is still Deep Sea as you know it: “We’ve still got all of the elements we loved from Outlands but this time we’ve got the production chops to fully realise them now.”
Obviously this suggests that throughout the four year hiatus the group grew and evolved as music producers, which was likely due in part to their side projects writing and composing film scores.
“Deep Sea has become more cinematic, there’s a much more electronic palette now and we’ve really gotten into keyboard and synth sounds. We haven’t abandoned guitar sounds altogether though, we’ve just focused on the other elements more this time around because we’re more confident with our skills…”
To celebrate the completion and imminent release of Learning To Fly, the group are hitting the road with a stop in Sydney tonight.
“We’re so excited about that [the Sydney show], we’ve got a full live band with us for this tour and all of the rehearsals are sounding really good,” Nic beamed, before joking that fans can expect to see “heaps of pyrotechnics”.
Looking ahead to the future, Nic see’s Deep Sea Arcade heading back into the studio to work on a few of the remaining tracks that didn’t quite make the cut this time around with the hopes that with new influences and inspirations these older songs may have a new life brought into them.
Dec 8, 8pm. Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst. $15. Tickets & info: www.oxfordartfactory.com
