AUSTRALIAN TOUR KICKS OFF THIS WEEK
“A masterclass in songwriting.”
Kath Devaney – ABC Country
“Tropical Depression…easily his best album to date.” 4 Stars
Brian Wise – Rhythms Magazine
“He’s the genuine thing, a unique songwriter with a talent to capture the simple things in life and transform them into something sparkling and attractive. Love this work!!”
Marcus Mulcahy – Radio Carrum
With his back catalog of albums featuring in many Top 50 albums’ lists, 4-star Rolling Stone album reviews, and an AIR Awards nominated album, Jordie Lane returns with one of his finest records yet, in new album Tropical Depression.
After giving us a taste of his fourth solo album with latest singles The Changing Weather, Blame Me If You Want To, Biscuit House, and new single Back, Out There, Tropical Depression sees the folk-roots singer-songwriter at his very best.
Tropical Depression was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with Grammy nominated producer, engineer and instrumentalist Jon Estes (Kacey Musgraves, Dolly Parton, Rodney Crowell), mixed by famed engineer Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Devandra Banhart, Marlon Williams) and mastered by Juno Award winning Phillip Shaw Bova (Feist, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Bahamas).
Jordie Lane marks this new chapter with a sound that consistently defies genres, with his latest wandering somewhere close to the outskirts of Americana and 60’s inspired Folk while “creating a pathbreaking and inspiring sound” all of its own. With irreverent wit and satirical commentary, the songs on Tropical Depression tackle (among other things) Lane’s own growing obsession with extreme weather (ignited by a close call with an EF-3 Tornado) and its eventual collision with his own mental health battles.
With lines on the first ‘Beatlesque’ single ‘The Changing Weather’: “My country was burnin’, but the world kept on churning, What new catastrophe’s on special tonight?”.
Or the imposter syndrome self-talk that drives the cool summer vibes of ‘Biscuit House’: ‘You ain’t no gun-slinger baby, You’re a hipster eating gravy off a biscuit in a Nashville house, You ain’t no 4-leaf clover, You’re a wannabe drover, making jokes on your way down south’.
Many of the stories on Tropical Depression are layered with the extra dimension of brooding social commentary in a post-pandemic new-world, grappling with changes in society and social structures, and humans’ equal ability to change or be in complete denial.
Like in the rambling prose of ‘Back, Out There’, reminiscent of Bob Dylan or Courtney Barnett with dry sarcasm lines like: “Yeah I’ll pay a publicist, everything I got, It’ll be so damn beautiful they’ll get me on some underground Norwegian blog”, and…“Spontaneous prose is not as good as editing for 3 days? But aint nobody got time for that, 15×15 second songs Daniel Ek wants me to make”
Or… ‘New Normal’, the classic crooner turned rock ballad. A conclusion of sorts to the album, with the wrestle between the mind and nature itself, “It’s once in a century, we think we’re learning plenty, so how come this shit just keeps on piling on”.
Heavy themes juxtaposed with an upbeat playfulness grinning its way right through the album. Party time Congas, dry 70’s drums and Hollow body Bass, and classic hook-laced guitar riffs are soaked in Cosmic pedal steel, Mellotrons, and Pop Strings, finding their place alongside multi-layered vocals, and effected Kalimbas and Cymbalom.
Jordie Lane and Tropical Depression are an important addition to the ever-evolving Americana/Folk world as an Australian artist based in Nashville, Tennessee with a unique perspective and voice that may just become legendary while he’s still alive.
Album Tropical Depression is out now via ABC Music / The Orchard / Blood Thinner Records.
Jordie Lane has continued to delight audiences around the world now for over a decade, performing major festivals in the US, UK, Australia, and Canada. He has toured with a wide range of international legends, from Gotye to Billy Bragg, Cat Power to Old Crow Medicine Show, Ruthie Foster to The Moody Blues and several tours with Aussie legends The Waifs. A career that has taken Lane from performing the role of the late Cosmic Country legend Gram Parsons in the stage play ‘Grievous Angel’, to the Beatles Rubber Soul/Revolver shows at Sydney Opera House, and becoming a composer for the screen-writing and Musical Score for the newly rebooted adaption of the classic Australian comedy ‘Mother and Son’. Jordie has appeared on Australian TV shows Rock Wiz singing with Grammy-nominated artist Mary Gauthier, and as a main guest on the hit Music Quiz show ‘Spicks and Specks’ along with CW Stoneking.
Don’t miss Jordie Lane on his National Tropical Depression album tour over the following dates:
August 22 – Old Stone Hall, Beechworth, VIC
August 23 – The Bridge Hotel, Castlemaine, VIC
August 24 – Sandy Point Music Club, Sandy Point, VIC
August 25 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, VIC (Arvo show)
August 25 – Northcote Social Club, Melbourne, VIC (Evening show)
August 28 – Ararat Town Hall, Ararat, VIC
August 29 – It’s Still A Secret, Brisbane, QLD
August 30 – Eudlo Hall, Eudlo, QLD
August 31 – Ex-Services Club, Mullumbimby, NSW
September 1 – Buffalo Farm, Eungai Creek, NSW
September 5 – Qirkz, Hunter Valley, NSW
September 6 – LA LA LA’s, Wollongong, NSW
September 7 – The Trocadero Room, Enmore, NSW
