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HECTOR MORLET
announces debut EP
MUSIC FOR SQUARES
Out Friday 22 April

+ Reveals
PARTY…AHAHA
official video

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Photo credit: Michael Tartaglia

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“Not often does an artist arrive with such a realised sound and also one that you rarely hear and sounds so unique.” – DECLAN BYRNE – TRIPLE J

“…forward-thinking and spectacular.” – PILERATS

“It’s got the Hiatus Kaiyote feels and shades of Unknown Mortal Orchestra. I was immediately sucked in as soon as this one dropped into my player.” – KCRW

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Today, Perth bedroom producer and multi-instrumentalist Hector Morlet announces his debut EP Music For Squares, available Friday 22 April via AWAL.  To celebrate, he lowers the curtain on the visual spectacular for his neon, retro-laced single Party…ahaha.

Captured by acclaimed Director Matt Sav (Tame Impala, Spacey Jane, Pond), the official video for Party…ahaha unravels as a cinematic work of visual art.    “​​This time round we hired a terrific film maker, who’s used to big budgets and a team of people helping him to make really cool music videos. But I soon found out that music videos are expensive, and while I thought I was being seconded to a world of movie making, it was actually Matt that was seconded to my domain of gloriously crummy DIY art.  Matt showed me some really cool music videos, and he really caught my attention by pausing some of these really cool music videos and explaining lots of little clever tricks that filmmakers like Frank Lebon would sneak into their work.  We spent a lot of time in the car alone and in the studio alone, and I’m surprised how much you can learn about a stranger when you’re alone with them. Well, I learned a lot, I’m not sure whether Matt did. I learned about the music industry, love, drugs, friends, money – how it can sour creativity and how absurd it makes life for a filmmaker or a musician. I learned about vulnerability and honesty – Matt is a paragon of these both. And I’m not just saying this, I really did learn this stuff,” says Hector of the experience.

“But anyway, the music video: I had a half baked idea to wrap things in material like the artist Christo would wrap entire shorelines or parliaments, but we settled for a few smaller (more modest) objects to wrap. I spent a day painting 24 metres of fabric with lines, circles and squiggles to match a dress that my talented partner sewed for me a few months ago. Matt had an idea for a falling scene, which turned into the amazing first scene of the video! That was a lot of fun. Like running around in ya undies kind of fun. Some of it was serious, and some of it was really fun too, and that’s kind of what the song is all about,” he adds.

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On Party…ahaha Hector takes the driving rhythm of pop songs and stereotypes from television intro songs and sing-song jazz artists such as Ella Fitzgerald and presents it as a short, catchy tune about fun.

The new single is one of six tracks on Hector’s debut EP Music for Squares, available Friday 22 April.  The EP, which features previously released singles Picture Frame and the low-fi earworm Surprise!, straddles the line between sincerity and a throw-away joke, between cliche and originality. Or perhaps an original combination of cliches.  “I want Music for Squares to jab at the listener: ‘PAY ATTENTION!’ I want the harmony to twist and knot their emotions together. I want the melodies to prick their ears and the drums to move them. I want the lyrics to bring them into a space as much their own as it is mine. But I wouldn’t take it too seriously. Most of all, the EP explores sincerity and frivolity and not much in between,” muses Hector.

Hector has kicked around the Perth music scene for years, pouring his experience into his bedroom beat-making. His captivating melodies are punctuated by tight, textured beats and grooving bass lines and the music derives his inspiration from artists such as Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Harvey Sutherland, Hiatus Kaiyote, Madlib and D’Angelo.

The four piece band that accompanies his live set includes members of Tash Sultana’s live band, Airline Food, Butter and Jack Davies and the Bush Chooks. Hector Morlet sets feature a combination of woozy and growling synthetic sounds, laced with gliding vocals and clarinet refrains.

Music For Squares reflects Hector’s growth as a songwriter and as a person. He concludes, “Most of all, I want to mess around with the ears belonging to you, the listener… square.”

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NEW SINGLE PARTY…AHAHA OUT NOW

DEBUT EP MUSIC FOR SQUARES – OUT APRIL 22

Cover art credit: Leyla Allerton

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