Breaking Into Heaven

Yugambeh/Kombumerri/Gold Coast-based six-piece SELVE - led by Jabirr Jabirr frontperson Loki Liddle - announce forthcoming debut album Breaking Into Heaven. The first full-length album to be recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios by an Aboriginal artist, Breaking Into Heaven is inspired by Nina Simone's words that "‘The people who built their heaven on your land, are telling you that yours is in the sky" - a powerful testament of First Nations stories breaking into spaces that have traditionally been reserved for the select few.

A confronting interruption of regular programming, a bold declaration of love and resistance that is both unapologetically playful and grounded by a powerful message, Breaking Into Heaven is a high-theatre showcase of raucous punk/post-punk and subversive rock, tender indie-pop, winking new-wave/psychedelic tied together with rebellion and compassion - punctuating and refracting the listener's consciousness like a glass brick through a window.

Roaring to life with all the adrenaline of being dropped in the middle of a car chase over siren samples, buzzed-out electric guitar, euphoric backing vocals, menacing bass and water-tight drums, 'Breaking Into Heaven' is "about breaking in and subverting the centres of power that have been used to author our fates en masse, stealing the pen back from the stealer and sprawling a First Nations story and future across the heavens above", shares Loki Liddle - whose trademark magnetic drawl heralds the album's conceptual ethos and sound.