JACK LADDER & THE DREAMLANDERS
Release New Album
“BLUE POLES”
+ New Video For
“SUSAN”
+ Supports Announced For East Coast Tour
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Blue Poles, the fifth album by Jack Ladder & The Dreamlanders, is released today via Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control. From one of the most singular characters in Australian music, Blue Poles is mournful, sardonic and surreal – showcasing an essential voice and master of musical narrative.
Listen/Stream/Download Blue Poles HERE
To complement the album release is a mesmerising new video for the song ‘Susan‘. Inspired by 1980s psychic hotline infomercials, director Leilani Croucher (from Revolver / Will O’Rourke) interpreted the song as someone looking for answers and in the process “losing themselves in the desire to become something else”.
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Preceding the ‘Susan‘ video we witnessed ‘White Flag‘ and ‘Feel Brand New‘, which together offer an insight into the breadth of musical feel and emotional complexity of the album. Named after the infamous Jackson Pollock painting, Blue Poles mirrors its qualities – wild splashes of colour, swirls of movement, competing visions spilling off the sides, the struggle for order from chaos. Here we have a musician sustaining an element of looseness, too, leaving him open to whatever happens to float his way.
In referencing Blue Poles, Ladder is also thinking about the polarities we find within ourselves. The separations of public and private personas and the vacuum of melancholy in the space where the two shall never meet. The polarities of love and hate, success and failure. The result is a glorious celebration of absurdity and sincerity.
Entirely self-produced by Jack Ladder, the nine songs of Blue Poles were recorded at Oceanic Studio in Sydney, engineered by Tim Whiten (The Necks, The Church, The Go-Betweens) and mixed in Los Angeles by Noah Georgeson (Joanna Newsom, The Strokes). Once again he’s joined by The Dreamlanders, Australia’s very own misfit supergroup made up of Donny Benet on bass, Laurence Pike on drums and this time the twin guitar attack of Kirin J Callinan and Ben Hauptmann.
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Blue Poles is out now – via BDR & Remote Control Records
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“With his fifth album ‘Blue Poles’, Jack Ladder weaves together tragedy and comedy taking dark musings and melancholic melodies into a career-high” The Skinny (UK) ★★★★
“Glorious neon-and-noir pop built around his rich croon” The Music ★★★★
“Singularly dark Australian singer-songwriter hits career high” Q Magazine ★★★★
“Jack Ladder’s got an attitude and a swagger (not to mention a great voice) that’s all his own” Brooklyn Vegan
2SER Feature Album
In just a few weeks the band begin a run of east coast dates to launch Blue Poles. Alex Gow of Oh Mercy has been announced as the support across all three shows. Joining them in Melbourne is Golden Syrup, Sleepclub in Brisbane and Roadhouses in Sydney.
Before that they will continue their opening run for The Killers across Australian arenas along with Alex Cameron, with dates in Melbourne and Adelaide still to come. The Killers recently declared themselves fans by sharing “White Flag” with their 5 million Twitter followers.
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Jack Ladder Australian Tour Dates
WITH THE KILLERS & ALEX CAMERON
Fri 4 May – Hisense Arena, Melbourne SOLD OUT
Sat 5 May – Hisense Arena, Melbourne
Sun 6 May – Hisense Arena, Melbourne
Tues 8 May – Adelaide Entertainment Centre, Adelaide
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Blue Poles Album Tour
Fri 18 May – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
w/ Alex Gow + Golden Syrup
Tickets
Sat 19 May – The Brightside, Brisbane
w/ Alex Gow + Sleepclub
Tickets
Fri 25 May – Factory Theatre, Sydney
w/ Alex Gow + Roadhouses
Tickets
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JACK LADDER – BLUE POLES
1. Can’t Stay
2. Dates
3. Susan
4. I.N.M
5. Blue Mirror
6. Tell It Like It Is
7. White Flag
8. Feel Brand New
9. Merciful Reply
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Jack Ladder – Blue Poles is out now via Barely Dressed Records / Remote Control Records
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