Brisbane four-piece and former Triple J Next Crop artists Little Scout have released their second record, ‘Are You Life’. They’re stoked to be touring it... mostly.
“We all get pretty cranky when we haven't had a lot of sleep or if we're hungry,” Melissa Tickle explains. “The morale is low at those times. Otherwise it's so wonderful to be able to play shows, so you have to take the good with the bad. We are taking a few great bands on the road with us like Eves (Hannah Karydas), I A Man, Bree Tranter (formerly from The Middle East) and Little Casino … So yeah, we're really excited to be playing with those guys. And playing this new album is so much fun, so that's also going to be great.”
'Are You Life' was released in early September, and the band were lucky enough to work on it alongside Lars Stalfors, the US producer and engineer who's worked with the likes of The Mars Volta, Matt & Kim, Cold War Kids, Deap Vally... and now Little Scout.
“[Lars] had emailed us and asked if we'd like to work with him,” Tickle remembers, “which was quite incredible for us. He is such a fabulous human being. He's so supportive and encouraging and he really gets what we were trying to achieve. He… really experiments with weirdness. It's such a wonderful thing to be encouraged by someone of that calibre. That he's such a personable human being is an added bonus.”
Despite having their latest album mixed in America, Tickle makes it plain that Little Scout will never forget their Brisbane roots. “Brisbane is a family and the Brisbane scene is really supportive. Within that, there's so much talent and so much exceptional songwriting, it's quite mind-blowing that we are a part of it. I really love that, and I just hope that the dialogue that's going on with young bands talking to older bands who've sort of seen it all, I hope that continues and is still such a strong community in years to come, because it's such a wonderful thing.”
Little Scout play The Beach Hotel Oct 10, Black Bear Lodge Oct 18 and Solbar Oct 26. ‘Are You Life’ Is Out Now.
