HALCYON DRIVE
Release Video For
‘Only Youth’
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Melbourne Electro Rockers, HALCYON DRIVE, have today released their ageing afterlife styled video for their new single ‘Only Youth’, out now via Sony Music Entertainment Australia.
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On the eccentric aging video, lead singer Mick Oechsle comments: “While the song essentially explores the idea of what do we do with our youth – how do we spend our time, how do we waste it, etc – this video for ‘Only Youth’ takes a little bit of a tangent. We worked with a couple of local makeup artists to age ourselves up, play on the theme and explore what’s possible at any age! We directed, filmed and edited it all ourselves and are super proud of another really fun clip. Keep your eyes peeled for the Beyonce inspired choreography at the end.”
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2018 has been a great year for HALCYON DRIVE, who have been touring consistently, including slots on the Festival of the Sun alongside acts like Vera Blue, Pond and Skegss, as well as The Hills Are Alive Festival, headlining Rare Finds indie club night tour circuit and a support slot on Stereophonics sold-out Australian tour. 2019 promises even more on the road for this exciting young band, stay tuned for more details!
‘Only Youth’ follows their recent critically acclaimed tracks ‘Agnosia’ and ‘Silver Ray’, which cemented the group as one of Melbourne’s most promising rock trios. Both singles were widely embraced by the likes of Australian radio stations triple j, 3RRR, SYN FM, 4ZZZ, Radio Adelaide and Edge Radio. The tracks also received support from worldwide tastemaker blogs Indie Shuffle (USA), Podcart (UK), The Revue (CAN), We Love That (GER), Niche Music (JAP), Red Bull Music, Laundry Echo, Savage Thrills, Heavy Mag, Music Feeds and Pilerats.
At the heart of creative design lies a fundamental understanding of structure and experimentation. Be it music, art, technology or utility, the underlying concepts remain the same. It’s no coincidence that HALCYON DRIVE was born when Mick Oechsle and Max Pamieta met studying design together at university; their ability to understand the process of creative design – to imagine, conceptualise, improvise, challenge, ideate and to ultimately create something out of nothing – has had great influence on the shape and sound of the project as a whole.
Based in Melbourne, their class only consisted of five or six students, so it was inevitable that the pair began to chat, bonding through a love of music. After discovering that they both played instruments, they started hanging out and playing together. Though HALCYON DRIVE technically began as Mick’s solo project, it wasn’t long before Max, who would initially join Mick on stage to add energy to the performance, became a permanent member. To this day, they split the creative process down the middle.
That background knowledge of design proved hugely beneficial to their unique approach, particularly in terms of finding confidence in their own ideas, and of “knowing at what point one should grovel in the detail, and when it is okay to bin an idea,” Max explains.
Pooling together a massive range of influences from Queens of the Stone Age, Fall of Troy and Spoon to St. Vincent, Neil Finn and David Byrne, they carved their own sound through hours of jamming and performing together. Initially taking cues from pop-centric indie, they grew a little “weirder” and more “different”, ultimately releasing two EPs, 2014’s ‘Cruel Kids’ and 2016’s ‘Untethered’.
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