Melbourne/Naarm three-piece Summer Flake today announces ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ – a new 5-track EP, following their 2023 Australian Music Prize-nominated album ‘One Less Thing’.
Ahead of full EP release on 28th June 2024 via Rice Is Nice Records, the melancholic title track ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ is available right now, accompanied by sumptuous video by frequent ‘Flake collaborator, Geoffrey O’Connor.
With humble beginnings as Steph Crase’s lofi guitar dream-pop solo recording project in 2012, Summer Flake has since flourished into a dependable indie rock mainstay releasing 4 albums and 3 EPs, arriving at today’s optimal trio format with Joel Carey (Peak Twins, Skid City) and Perry Mahoney (The Shifters, Scott & Charlene’s Wedding).
The tender new single ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ radiates with woozy echoes, glowing leads and downbeat layered-vocal elegance, spackling Crase’s distinctive malaise over a faultless rhythm section, enclosed in engineer Paul Maybury’s warm analogue touch.
On the creation of the title track, Crase says:
“The song came about from a loose rehearsal jam; Perry repeated this kinda ‘Twin Peaks’ bass-line and it lent to some wistful reflective lyrics where ‘nothing lasts forever’ is either totally deflating or somewhat hopeful depending on your view. We recorded with Paul Maybury (of Rocket Science) in Fairfield VIC on analogue tape, and I had a lovely time running my guitar through many many reverb effects pedals at once to create that wafty atmospheric pillow under the song.”
‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ is available to preorder now [HERE] – streaming everywhere and available in a limited cassette edition, featuring original lino cut cover art by Adelaide’s finest, Seb Calabretto.
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