1.The First Record I Bought
Adam Newling: It was The Cat Empire (self-titled) and still to this day it’s one of my all-time favourite albums. I heard ‘Hello’ on the ABC one afternoon when I was in the second grade and was hooked for life.
2.The Last Record I Bought
Joel Osborn: Blood Orange – Freetown Sound. A good friend of mine got me onto them, I’ve never heard of them before until now. I like all types of music, anything that sounds good to my earholes. I love this album – it’s so diverse and has great production as well as structure to it, making it flow and never staying in the one place.
3.The First Thing I Recorded
Curtis Newbett-Hill: An early high school project a mate and I started called Cold Ambition. I think we recorded our first song using the camera on my Nokia to video us playing. Still don’t understand why we didn’t make it big [laughs].
4.The Last Thing We Recorded
We’ve just been laying down some red hot demos for our next EP, so get keen for some new tunes on the horizon.
5.The Record That Changed My Life
AN: Wu Lyf – Go Tell Fire To The Mountain. I was at a pretty low point in my life when I heard this album and although I couldn’t understand a thing that is said on the album, I knew exactly what was meant and it just made sense. This was the period I started to focus all my worldly frustrations into music and art, and it’s the way I’ve been surviving since.
Letters To Lions play theHudson BallroomThursday November 10, then the Brass Monkey on Thursday November 24.
