Off the back of the release of their frenetic debut self-titled EP in February, Melbourne’s Fight the Sun have returned with a blistering new music video for their single ‘Goodbye Gravity’. Capturing this electric band dynamic on camera, the music video is a great snapshot of Fight the Sun operating at full force.
Goodbye Gravity was an easy highlight of the Fight the Sun EP, with its crashing guitar riffs and throttling rhythm section providing an unrelenting force of rock music unto the listener from first playback. Working with Tom Larkin on the record at Homesurgery Recordings in Melbourne informed some of the way Goodbye Gravity – and the EP as a whole – came to settle and finesse itself in the end.
Crafting music that has positioned the band within the embraces of the Melbourne rock community favourably this year, Fight the Sun have continued to strive forward with confidence. Combining Biffy Clyro-esque riffs with a manic energy that marked Muse’s early work, Fight the Sun’s influences are strong, but so is their individuality when it comes to making Australian rock music that doesn’t give up its bite. Check out the EP below!
We managed to catch up with the band as they talked about their latest EP and more!
How has the initial release of your self titled debut EP gone down so far?
The initial release has been really positive. Getting a lot of great feedback about it. It’s given us a lot of confidence to move forward.
What is your favourite track from the EP?
Tough one but we’d say Goodbye Gravity. In a little under 3 minutes it captures a few different sides of the band. It was also a turning point in our songwriting as well. We started to take a different approach after writing it.
Can you tell us something about the EP no one else knows?
That Tom Larkin, Samuel Sproull and Jon Grace who produced, mixed, engineered and mastered it actually played and sang everything on it and we paid them a heap of money to keep quiet about it. Oh no!! We just told you the big secret! ONLY JOKING LOL. That didn’t happen. It was actually a really great time making it. For the guitar geeks a lot of the gnarlier guitar tones are actually from a tiny little Pignose amp. Something that no one else may know….until now.
What was it like working with Tom Larkin at Homesurgery?
Working with Tom was great. We learnt a lot and he opened our eyes to a lot of things we either didn’t know or may have known but hadn’t fully explored or really taken advantage of before. Along with that we also worked with the rest of his team being Samuel Sproull and Jon Grace who also bought a lot of great ideas to the table and were just rad dudes to work with.
If you could work with any band on a new song, who would it be and why?
Tough one, a lot of choices but today I’d say Biffy Clyro. I love that band so much the way they can mix weird time signatures, big rock anthems, singalong ballads, such honest and raw lyrics, just so many different things and still sound like the same band and it never sounds forced or unnatural. Even when they write something that in actuality is a pretty standard straight up rock song it never sounds like it. They apply their own unique stamp to it. They’re just amazing.
Have you got any tours or festivals lined up for 2018?
We’re heading out for a tour in support of the Goodbye Gravity single and video June through August. Jump on our website or social media for more info. There’s still a few more dates to add.
What’s the alternative scene like in Melbourne at the moment?
There’s so much great music at the moment. I mean apparently it’s the best music scene in the world or so the internet tells me lol. A lot of great bands, As A Rival, Sinking Teeth, Captives, Planet of the 8’s just to name a few that we think are great. It’s also just great to see things evolving and seeing a great mix of newer artists and older more established artists interacting and playing shows and stuff together.
What do you get up to in your spare time when not working on music?
Pretty normal things really aside from working. I love my AFL like a lot of Melbournians (go Hawks). I’ve got a BMX that I really want to spend more time with but never do for some reason. I obsess a lot about music though. For every song written there’s like 30 unfinished, half written songs or ideas. For the most part everything revolves around music.