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Fortitude Valley Release Sunshine State Video

May 20, 2025 nathan.lankford Leave a comment

Our pal over at Specialist Subject Records have already gotten a lot of ATH love this year, with new stuff from Don’t Worry and Soot Sprite…and now we have more reason to rejoice as they’ve scheduled a new LP for Fortitude Valley at the end of the Summer! It doesn’t take long for the group to embrace the carefree pop rock of similar acts like the Beths, bringing out these huge walls of riffs that get tightened around a really sweet melody. Songwriter Laura Kovic is using the song as a way to reach back and talk to her teenage self, perhaps circling back to reimagine who she is or was. There is no shortage of hooks in this track, and one can assume that Part of the Problem, Baby, will be just as such.

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New Single from Sunshine State

August 13, 2014 nathan.lankford

There are certain styles of music that just make you nostalgic. Listening to this new single from Sunshine State, I’m transported to the late 90s/early 00s when Jets to Brazil and like-minded acts dominated much of my music rotation. There’s that same scratchy vocal here in this number, though the path towards pop sensibility is what really reminds threw me back in time. The group has signed on with No Idea Records to release their newest album Pour; it should be in your favorite local record store on September 23rd.

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