Melbourne based singer-songwriter and Pianist Munro Melano released his stunning new EP Blue Veins late last month.

Recorded at a mix of Melbourne studios, home studios, and a beach bungalow on the NSW coast, the EP is layered with his signature mix of acoustic instruments and synthesisers.

Like the last release, Munro’s EP was recorded with long-time friend and producer, Joel Woolf (Pirate, Hollow States), while much of the recording was engineered by Yen Nguyen (Mechanical Pterodactyl, Baychimo Kin).

To celebrate this beautiful new release, Munro has given us a track by track run down of the EP, which you can stream and read below.

Further For Her

“While recording  Further For Her’, our studio suddenly went pitch black. Total blackout. An hour waiting in the darkness turned into 4 hrs…and that’s when we started calling in favours.  In the end, we had to pack up, and move to another studio across town to set up the entire session again. We entered the first studio at 10am, and started setting up the second studio at 10pm for a midnight session.

‘For a song about being totally committed to another person, giving everything you are, there was something fitting in how hard it was to get this one recorded.”

My Hometown

“I originally wrote this song for my bluegrass friends Mustered Courage. They do a great version of it.

Once they called me up at the Northcote Social club in front of a sold-out show to play along with them. I refused, but the crowd thought that my polite refusal was a show of….showmanship. They chanted my name until I reluctantly succumbed to peer pressure and got on stage.

Unfortunately – I wasn’t being polite. I hadn’t played the song in 6 months. The Mustered Courage version of My Hometown is in a different key, they’ve peppered in different chords, bars and riffs. I had no idea how to play it. Sometimes, your only choice is to butcher your own song in front of 300 bluegrass fans. Good times.”

Blue Veins

“I’ve always loved MJ. As a kid, I was rocking one glove and clunkily moonwalking in the kitchen. And as I got older, it was the rawness of his talent, the creative risks he took throughout his whole career that inspired me as musician.

In the months following his death, I spent a lot of time thinking about his life – always under the spotlight, scrutinised and celebrated, demonised and then adored. I wrote this track to try and take in all of that.”

Weeds Will Grow

“From synths and instrument choices, to story telling, drum beats and programming – hip hop has always influenced my music. It’s just taken me a while to work out how to bring rapping to my singer songwriter work. I have plans on releasing a full hip hop album in the near future – and I see this tune will act as the bridge to it.”

When You Get Back

“Sometimes arranging a song takes longer than writing it.

This is a fairly pretty song melody and harmony wise, so arrangement wise it was important that the music reflected the more complex and darker aspects of the lyrics. To bring out the all night partying for no reason, and the loneliness that can accompany it. I like the idea that the song is aiming for a big celebratory chorus, but instead when you finally get to the climax, it gives the opposite.”

Tour Dates

Fri 21 Nov – Majors Creek Festival – Majors Creek
Fri 28 Nov – The Sooki Lounge – Belgrave w Dash
Fri 12 Dec – The Aviary – Melbourne
Sat 13 Dec – The Aviary – Melbourne
Fri 19 Dec – Easy Tiger – Sydney w Outside the Academy
Sun 21 Dec – The Front – Canberra

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