Just months after earning praise for the all-everything creativity and innate wit of their debut album ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’, The Great Emu War Casualties share a brand new single in the shape of ‘Cold Food Ave’. It is the first single to be taken from their new EP ‘Mal Du Siecle’ which follows on November 6th. Listen HERE.
‘Cold Food Ave’ introduces a rowdier version of The Great Emu War Casualties than we’ve heard before. It’s a rambunctious racket of garage-rock good times, all hollered gang vocals, searing lead guitar and brash, full-force rhythms. Vocalist/guitarist Joe Jackson’s lyrics are a stream-of-consciousness run of non-sequiters and self-doubts that somehow make perfect sense within the context of the track.
As you may expect after hearing ‘Cold Food Ave’, the rest of the five-track ‘Mal Du Siecle’ EP can’t be pigeonholed in any one genre. There’s sparkling, panoramic indie-pop; even brighter hued synth-rock; and post-punk with a dancefloor favour – leaning towards a style that could appeal to fans of LCD Soundsystem, Everything Everything, Foals, Talking Heads or Two Door Cinema Club. The title comes from a French phrase coined to express the ennui and disillusionment that was widely felt in the early 19th century. Just as well things have changed so much in the subsequent 300 years…
The entire EP was written by Joe Jackson and bassist/vocalist Saskia Clapton. They produced it alongside the Grammy-nominated Alex Newport (Bloc Party, At The Drive In), who engineered the sessions at his studio in Joshua Tree and also mixed the record.
The Great Emu War Casualties are presumably the only British / Australian / Nepalese band in existence. Joe Jackson and Saskia Clapton first met in Liverpool before steadily meandering their way back across the world to her home city of Melbourne, where they found former metal drummer Bibek Samang online. Cat Sanzaro completed the band shortly before the recording of ‘Public Sweetheart No. 1’. They joke that they bonded over desperation and shared trauma… but many a true word is spoken in jest.
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