Indie rockers Morning Harvey are gearing to release their brand new EP titled love&loveand. this Friday July 3rd and it’s guaranteed to be an absolute corker.

The Brisbane band built around the the lyrical musings and swagger of singer Spencer White, have been releasing retro tinged gems for a little while now including the lead single ‘Smith Street Swamp Meet’ which we called “a shimmering piece of psych-pop gold.”

To celebrate the upcoming five track release, the band have given us a sneaky early stream of the EP accompanied by a track by track down down penned by Spencer. Check it out below and if you like what you hear, be sure to catch the local legends when they roll into your town this July – tour dates below.

Pinch Me Velvet

Whoever I show this song to, the comments will often be that it reminds them of an early psychedelic groove 60’s -70’s inspired something-something. I can see how they picture it like that. To me, every time I listen too it, I’ll think of mostly 80’s Aus. e.g. Hoodoo Gurus.

The song was very quick to write and a very simple idea that we slowly added too. As most of my songs are, it has no real meaning behind it, merely just a story that has come about through piecing together lyrics and phrases out of my trusty little notepad. God knows where the name came from…

Smith Street Swap Meet

I’d been doing heaps of demos with our band mates Lewis & Steve, which all had a substantial amount of drone and ‘sluggishness’ to them. All fairly focussed on feedback and noise.

I think I took a break from recording vocals and sat down and started playing the riff to Smith Street. At the time it reminded me of something John Squire (The Stone Roses) would play, so I was pretty happy with it. The next day I scrapped the 20 or so demos we’d recorded and started a fresh.

T.I.D.E

Stands for ‘Thoughts I Don’t Expect’. A loosely told love story on how two people are together but shouldn’t be. They are convincing themselves it’s OK, but becomes apparent that the situation only really exists through drugs, sex and shenanigans.

Sounds really deep, but it’s a happy song when you listen to it.

Girl Euphoria (Come Back To Me)

Our former rhythm guitarist James and myself sat in a room together and threw around a couple chord progressions and eventually settled on one. We began to loop it and just kept it going, pushing the amp fairly loud so we could hear it through the whole house.

After walking around for an hour or so we both started singing, (what is now the chorus) “Come back to me, Come back to me”, a very nice moment indeed. I took it away and finished it later that day.

Quince

Quince is probably the favourite/most meaningful song on the EP for me. I wrote it after my Grandma passed away around August of 2013. It was a massive rough patch for me and hit pretty hard for sometime after. First time I played it was at her funeral in a beautiful old church in Maitland.

I don’t think I’ve heard “Haunting and Peaceful” used in the same sentence before, but that is what the situation was like. ‘Quince’ comes from Quince Jam, a beautiful accompaniment for toast.

Upcoming Shows

4th July, Sol Bar Maroochydore QLD (Free)
10th July, Great Northern Byron Bay NSW (Free)
11th July, Elephant & Wheelbarrow Brisbane QLD (Free)
15th July, Sosueme, Beach Road Hotel Sydney NSW (Free)
17th July, Shebeen, Melbourne VIC (Tickets)
18th July, Gallery Bar, Sydney NSW (Tickets)

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