Rolling Stone Australia — June 2017

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SOUNDS LIKE:Chill electronica,

liable to drop some serious bass

or searing synth at any second

FOR FANS OF:Flume, the

Chainsmokers, Safia

WHY YOU SHOULD PAY

ATTENTION:2016 saw this

Perth-based duo collaborate

with Daniel Johns, play a

national festival run and hit

the iTunes charts; 2017 sees

them on the line-up for Groovin

the Moo, dropping their new

EPFracture, dominating the

Triple J playlists with their

Vera Blue collab of the same

name, and kicking off an Aus/

NZ tour. Slumberjack manage

to be ridiculously on trend

and daringly themselves all at

once, with an eclectic palette

of world music samples, EDM

beats, radio-friendly refrains

and skull-rattling bass drops, all

splashed across a canvas of cin-

ematic scope. Whether you find

yourself sweptaway, drowning,

awestruck or enveloped, this

is music that will move and

immerse you, and – fair warning

• may blow your subwoofer.
  THEY SAY:“We hate to sound
  like that guy, but we noticed
  Vera [Blue] a while back,” says
  Fletcher Ehlers. “We went and
  saw one of her fi rst shows in
  Perth and really loved her an-
  gelic voice, so naturally we got

in touch. We love to jump into

studios with songwriters who

are not necessarily producers,

otherwise we get

so bogged down

in technical stuff

that nothing ends

up happening.

First we usu-

ally just hang out,

grab coffee and

become friends

before we become

colleagues. From

there, sometimes things come

about, sometimes they don’t;

you can’t rush art. We’re really

happy with where the process

has landed us – everything

we’ve done up to now has been

honing the Slumberjack sound

and this EP is the kind of sound

we’ve been trying

to achieve since

we started. I guess

you could call it

Slumberjack 2.0!”

HEAR FOR YOUR-

SELF:

The shattered

beats and jag-

ged synths of

“Fracture” contrast

sharply with the crystalline voice

of Vera Blue, resulting in a single

that has as much pop sensibility

as it does explosive experimen-

tation. JESSIE CUNNIFFE

Slumberjack

“We love to

jump into

studios with

songwriters

who are not

necessarily

producers.”