Organised Religious Sounds, by Great Earthquake

Organised Religious Sounds

by Great Earthquake

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Attractive navy blue cassette in fetching colourful cover. Music on both sides.

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1.	There is No Difference Between Us 03:32	buy track
2.	I'm Hiding Behind a Mask 02:40	buy track
3.	Fun Fun Fun 04:30	buy track
4.	I Can See Darkness Everywhere 04:36	buy track
5.	No Obvious Content 03:32	buy track
6.	ACL and Basketball 06:01	buy track
7.	Multiple Instances 04:16	buy track
8.	Organised Religious Sounds 04:02	buy track
9.	At the End of the Tunnel 03:49	buy track
10.	Pure Music 05:25	buy track

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Noah Symons: drums, bass, guitar, vocals, melodica, glockenspiel

After a couple of years on the sidelines, Great Earthquake returns with a new album, a new approach and a new knee!

Organised Religious Sounds is the fourth album of melodic, mostly instrumental indie-post-rock for Great Earthquake (AKA Noah Symons) and as usual, was self-recorded at home, in the Dandenong Ranges outside of Melbourne.

Thanks to a nasty fall on the basketball court resulting in a damaged anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), Noah was forced to undergo a complete knee reconstruction which kept the usually prolific artist out of the game for a prolonged period.

To ensure he had something to work on during his eight-month recovery, Noah perched his beaten-up bottom end on the drum stool and laid down some improvised drum recordings prior to his surgery, paving the groundwork for three of the album’s songs: ‘There is no Difference’, ‘No Obvious Content’ and the self-evident ‘ACL and Basketball’.

Within this revised approach to composition, Noah was able to shake the shackles of the loop pedal and ultimately create an album that felt more open, jammy and less constrained. Each track was created more organically; the track ‘Pure Music’ embodies this need to break out more into this way of working.

The album’s first single 'I'm Hiding Behind a Mask', decidedly downbeat for a Great Earthquake track, was written before the pandemic but very fitting for now. As Noah elaborates, "It’s about slipping under the radar and not wanting to be noticed because sometimes it’s easier to hide. But in reality wanting to be my real self and be noticed for that. It’s about identity."

Organised Religious Sounds is out on Friday, December 4, 2020 on digital and cassette formats via Lost And Lonesome.

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Great Earthquake Melbourne, Australia

"Noah Symons is one talented guy. Watching him do his one-man show, as Great Earthquake, is pretty cool. Sitting at a drum kit, surrounded by a myriad of instruments and noise makers, he builds these awesome soundscapes that are impeccably timed, focusing on rhythm". Tonedeaf ... more

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