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Image by Giulia Giannini McGauran

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Alex Lahey is quickly becoming a treasure of Australian indie music. Her debut EP, B-Grade University, gave moxie to millennial minimum wage woes with unpretentious and catchy rock riffs. With her first full-length album I Love You Like A Brother due in October, Lahey’s started to slowly unveil to LP’s contents— first, live at her Wes Anderson tour earlier in the year, and now with the album’s leading single, Every Day’s The Weekend.

The track starts out simple— a four-note guitar riff and a drum beat. As with B-Grade University, Lahey doesn’t show any desire to overcomplicate things. The track doesn’t pull in appeal by its virtuosity, rather its infectious honesty— both musically and lyrically. Lahey sings about balancing play (her relationship) with work, self-confessedly “not so good with in-between”. As in B-Grade University, Lahey remains in touch with her audience’s growing financial struggle, as well as the existing relational struggles that accompany young adult life. If you listen closely, the lyrics are somewhat heartbreaking— Lahey’s lover has “things like [their] family/they’re a bigger deal than I’ll ever be”. It’s clear that the “every day’s a weekend” mantra is disillusioned— not that you’d know, by song’s upbeat pace and catchy chorus. Endearingly, Lahey never sacrifices her Aussie accent for any socially acceptable musical tone. Coupled with a slightly off-the-rails synth and unceasing drums, bass, and Lahey’s signature fuzz-pedal driven guitar, it’s hard to listen without echoing the track’s “whoa-ohs” and head banging along to the whole shebang. The mix is as impressive as Lahey’s live offering, too. If Every Day’s The Weekend says anything about Alex Lahey’s new album, it’s that the whole thing’s bound to be Triple J radio fodder for a long, long time.

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The rest of Alex Lahey‘s debut album, I Love You Like A Brother, will drop on October 6th 2017. Tickets are on sale for Lahey’s accompanying tour, which will kick off on October 4th.

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AMNPLIFY – DB