Based in the Adelaide Hills Andy Scott and Greg Duke are The Neverleaves, a two-man recording outfit who prefer the comfort and solitude of separate home studios to the ceaseless struggle of holding a band together, scrounging for places to gig.
‘Rock bands are funny things’ says Andy Scott, lead singer of The Neverleaves. ‘By the time you’ve rounded up four talented people motivated and organised enough to form a group, one of them has a kid, two of them run off with a side-project and the drummer’s shed falls down so you’ve got nowhere to practice.’
For a couple of hills hermits, The Neverleaves have delivered a remarkably dynamic debut album. Duke’s snarling guitars and galloping bass-lines provide rich backdrops for Scott’s extraordinary tales of love, lust, hope and despair. Raw, harmonious, desperate, beautiful, at times strangely amusing, this is an Australian album well worth adding to your collection. Think Joy Division meets The Killers with a splash of Cold War Kids.
‘It’s a great way to work’ says Duke. ‘One of us emails the other a track – a bass-line or a guitar riff – the other throws on some drums or synths or whatever, Andy generally puts on some lyrics and vocals, and before you know it, a song is born.’
Ironically, Duke and Scott, who met through their kids’ school, began jamming together with the intention of sharing a few beers and some ‘quality man/music time’ together. But their debut album was recorded entirely separate of one another until the final mixing stage.
‘Yeah, I’m not sure what happened there’ says Scott. I guess we needed to make music together more than we needed to see each other and talk to each other. We’re both a little too comfortable in our own spaces and of course, technology is an awesome thing.’
The Neverleaves self titled album is available exclusively on iTunes or you can preview the entire album at www.theneverleaves.com
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