Hurricane Fighter Plane was a great young Australian band that I shortly featured on this blog a couple of times. It was sad to hear that they called it a day late last year, but there’s no need to dwell on sadness. Two Hurricane Fighter Plane members Jamie Turner and Matt Williams soon formed a new band called The High Learys and this band is equally brilliant. I’ve been following them on FB from the start, but I don’t think I’ve written about them before. There’s plenty of good reasons to finally do that now. 1) Their debut album Here Come The High Learys recently came out on the excellent Soundflat Records 2) The new video for the song Let You Down surfaced a few days ago 3) The record and the video are both pretty damn good and The High Learys do this 60s garage/R&B/beat thing extremely well.

You can listen to the whole album at bandcamp and here’s that new video Let You Down. Directed by Neil McArther.

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The High Learys Website
The High Learys at Facebook

Today I found something new to love and it’s called Strawberry Heritage. I was just totally into this about 15 seconds after I started watching and listening to this video of a new Strawberry Heritage song Grow Back New. It’s an outtake from their upcoming album New Rise, due out in june 2013. If the rest of the album matches the level of Grow Back New and the other already available song Work Harder, New Rise is going to be brilliant. Maybe it could even come to the level of the new Frontier Ruckus record Eternity of Dimming, which so far is my favourite record of the year. I brought that up, because there is a connection (and this was another opportunity to tell people about the greatness of the new Frontier Ruckus album). If I’m not mistaken John Hanson has directed videos for them and played bass on their tour line-up. It’s always great to find a new artist that I find amazing and then notice that he is friends with other artists I love like Frontier Ruckus, Small Houses, Nathan K etc. Anyway, the connections are nice, but what’s more important is that John Hanson is a really talented folk songwriter. And those harmonies on some of the songs. Oh my. Pure bliss for a pop fan like yours truly. This is Grow Back New.

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Strawberry Heritage at bandcamp
Strawberry Heritage at facebook