Client Liaison Have Confirmed Their Debut Album

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Client Liaison Have Confirmed Their Debut Album

You’d be hard pressed not to have sat up and taken notice of unique Australian pairing Client Liaison and their particular sound over the last few years.

Their brand of punchy pop sensibility coupled with an aesthetic matched by no other has made them a favourite among fans of any given generation of music lovers.

With them set to DJ a free party July 14th in Sydney (yep, FREE) alongside Paces and GG Magree thanks to yours truly and 5SEEDS, we wanted to find out what was really going on behind those killer hair do’s!

So we linked up with the boys (aka Harvey and Monte) for a chat about all thing Client Liaison…

SR: We were just listening to your latest single ‘World of Our Love’ and have been loving it! To what extent do you see this track (and your upcoming album in general) as a departure from your previous releases?

Harvey: Being an album, there’s more of a chance for us to extend to other types of songs that we otherwise wouldn’t write. There’s a few more worldly sounds and ballads in there. I mean, we’re not driven by making radio music, but it is somewhat at the back of our mind [when making music] so a single isn’t going to be some sort of abstract track.

Monte: Its always just one foot in front of the other and we’re always trying to work on all fronts. So it’s within the same world and created from within the same kind of space I think.

SR: You guys just wrapped up your ‘world of our love’ tour, how was that whole experience? Any stories? Realisations? Epiphanies?

Harvey: One standout was the surprise birthday lunch that our bass player Tom Tilley and the boys organised for me at McDonald’s Burpengary on our way through to our Sunshine Coast gig – private kids room, ice cream cake and full mini-bar privileges of course.

Monte: Yes that was epic! Overall though, it was our longest tour, it was really cathartic to start with festivals and finish up in Melbourne at The Forum. It was really nice.

SR: Let’s look back; childhood. Did you guys know each other way back then?

Harvey: Yeah we did actually, we met back then via my brother who was in Monte’s year at school and that’s how the musical partnership formed.

SR: Right, so that kind of gets into my next question, which is what was your main motive behind the two of you getting together to make music?

Harvey: Well we were both very passionate about music but very naive in that we didn’t know how to come about it, and we learnt to make music together because Monte had this great studio set-up that was kind of a drop in place for lots of friends. Back when we were really on the cusp of laptops and mobile recordings, this transition between the old school and new school; we would have these sixteen track recorders but they would have CD drives in them.

Monte: and then you bounce that onto a computer and edit it.

Harvey: Shortly after that we all got laptops and the production process ramped up.

Monte: Yeah, and it does influence the music. It turns actually into a more personal project because its your laptop so you’re the producer, in a way everyone’s a producer, but everyone helps each other out.

SR: Awesome, so you guys knew each other for ages and before you made music together?

Monte: Yeah, because I was always good friends with Harvey’s brother and so I’d always see Harvey when I’d go to Geordie’s house or around at school and Harvey was always a real wisecrack, like he would be super confident for his age, he would come up and just pull the joke out. For example, to our friend who would rap, Harvey would come up and go ‘Jeremy Korrin your rhymes are borin!’ and another friend who did this beautiful painting, asking him if the tear represented the pain in his heart. He had a lot of nerve about him.

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pictured: (left to right) Monte and Harvey when we met at the local dressmaker.

SR: Beyond your own brand of indie pop, what kind of music do you guys personally enjoy? Do you have any similarities (or maybe some stark differences?)

Harvey: I listen to all kinds of music and I feel like there’s always a time and place to listen to certain type of music. Lately, I’ve been listening to lots of Deep Forrest and similar artists, as well as Peter Gabriel. Spotify has been helpful because I kind of go off on these weird tangents when I’m listening.

Monte: I like groovy music that makes you boogie and kind of fruity, colourful, fun things. But that extends to different to many different genres, I mean, I genuinely enjoy Indian music, African music, Brazilian music I also love. But in terms of our shared interest, I think we both have a passion for digital synthesis, clean sophisticated sounds and hi-fi. The power of the studio basically.

SR: So now we are looking towards your debut album release, could we get any more info on what we should be expecting?

 Monte: We’re mixing fourteen songs, and we’re not sure if all fourteen will get on the record in the end but we like to set the parameter of variety, we want to achieve different moods.

Harvey: Yeah, we are quite diverse and it’s something we’re proud of.

SR: So do you guys have a method to how you normally go about things (when working on songs) or do you just let it happen naturally?

Harvey: We like to throw stuff at a wall and see what sticks.

Monte: Yeah, like one of us could bring something up and be like ‘Wow we haven’t worked in this world before, let’s give it a crack.’ And whenever we are really excited by a song we are working on, it goes to the top of our list, we have the song called ‘hotel stay’ which we wrote and mixed and finished like two, three years ago.

SR: Lastly, do you guys have any secret weapons [songs] which you might use to kick off a good night?

Harvey: ‘Whole New Way’ by Scissor Sisters.

Monte: Yep, that’s incredible that song.

Catch Client Liaison in DJ mode with Paces and GG Magree next Tuesday in Sydney for a free party thanks to 5SEEDS as we bring the ‘AROUND THE WORLD’ music video to life!

RSVP for your chance to head along with two friends!

#5SEEDS #PLANTTHESEED #IRL

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