No homegrown Aussie band has been on a hotter streak than Sydney favourites DMA’s, having unveiled a string of well-received singles, music videos, acclaimed tour dates around the world, and some very prestigious music festival spots.
Now, the band have confirmed they’ve completed work on their eagerly anticipated debut album. The band — guitarist Johnny Took, guitarist Matt Mason, and lead singer Tommy O’Dell — took to social media yesterday to announce the good news.
“So the albums done,” the band wrote on Facebook and there weren’t really too many more details to offer, like a release date, artwork, track list, word of an upcoming promotional tour, or anything important like that.
However, we do know of one of the tracks. Back in September, the band unveiled ‘Lay Down’, which they premiered to the world via Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show as the first fiery taste of their highly anticipated debut full-length.
‘Lay Down’ was recorded and produced by guitarist Johnny Took and Dylan Adams in a cramped studio in Coogee over last summer and mixed by Spike Stent, best known for his work with superstar acts like Depeche Mode, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Massive Attack.
Speaking to Tone Deaf back in May, Took revealed that the band, who gained notoriety thanks to mega-singles like ‘Delete’ and ‘Laced’, have been working hard on their debut album in their bedroom studio over the past months.
“I feel like it’s the calm before the storm at the moment,” Took told us. “We’re just doing it in my bedroom again. You can wake up at 2am and work on some guitar parts, which is cool.”
“Obviously you don’t want to linger for too long but it’s good way to chip away at it. You can come back to songs rather than just, ‘you’ve got two weeks in the studio, now, do it right.’”
Took described the record as simply a collection of “good, honest pop songs”. Among the tracks likely to make the cut are ‘Timeless’ (“it’s pretty ballsy”) and ‘Step Up the Morphine’, a reflective, medium-paced ballad.
