The Electorate
Live Review: YEEVS Wrap Up Sparkling ‘The Borderline, Thereabouts’ Tour With The Electorate at Botany View Hotel – Gadigal/Sydney, 30.11.24
The Botany View Hotel offered an intimate stage for a memorable close to YEEVS’ album tour, celebrating ‘The Borderline, Thereabouts’, with special guests The Electorate on Saturday. The night highlighted the close-knit, community-driven charm of Gadigal/Sydney’s live music scene, where small venues regularly host moments that linger long after the last note fades. The Electorate …
News: Sydney’s The Electorate Are Back With a Bang: ‘Face of a Giant’ Out Now
Intertwined Histories, One Voice: ‘Face of a Giant’ by The Electorate
Live: The Electorate and Key Out collectively shimmer and shine at the Golden Barley Hotel
Both Key Out and The Electorate produced magnificent albums last year – ‘Anthropomorphia‘ and ‘You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost‘ respectively made my list of best antipodean releases for 2020 and were shining examples of exemplary songwriting and impeccable musicianship. After 18 months of musical deprivation dry of live gigs, when I saw these …
See: Sydney’s The Electorate release dreamy, enigmatic video for ‘Lost At Sea’, off last year’s brilliant debut album
The Electorate‘s brilliant debut album ‘You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost’ was for me one of the highlights of 2020 (see my review here), and they’ve just released a video for the dynamic penultimate track ‘Lost At Sea’: a driving, thunderous piece of music that ebbs and flows like a spring tide. Indeed the …
Track: The Electorate release the single ‘Skeleton’ from their impressive debut album ‘You Don’t Have Time to Stay Lost’
‘You Don’t Have Time to Stay Lost’ is the outstanding debut album from Sydney outfit The Electorate – appearing in my list of favourite antipodean albums for 2020. I described the album as perfectly capturing the ennui of modern middle-aged life and wrapping it into beautiful melodies and wistful observations that manage to express the …
Album Review: The Electorate – ‘You Don’t Have Time To Stay Lost’
We’ve already met and fell in love with Sydney band The Electorate after the release of their single ‘Decades in a Day‘. If life is a series of unrelenting miseries leavened by brief moments of sunshine, then The Electorate manage to capture the former and express them perfectly into the latter through their songs. ‘You …
Track: The Electorate – Decades in a Day
The Electorate have individually quite a pedigree and yet little history. The band played together in their twenties without recording, and individual members have played with the legendary Peter Milton Walsh of the Apartments, and recorded recently with The Apartments as well as playing with a range of Australian bands including Big Heavy Stuff, Knievel …