How Life Strange Is
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The cover reads 'How Life Strange Is'. Inside, the debut long player from alt-art-rockers Preloved Things.
This is uneasy listening. Brittle guitar breaks and confounding arrangements. Furious psychedelia, yet moments of wafer-thin subtlety. Drumming like a cat fight in a china cabinet. Lyrics like sublime trickery.
Stylistically, Preloved Things wear their hearts on their sleeve. Their maiden album hints at inspiration from Radiohead to Regurgitator. Album tracks blend influences from experimental rock acts such as BEAK> and Fat White Family, while others conjure a brooding atmosphere reminiscent of The Cure, or Portishead.
Songs titles like ‘Cats Are Building Mouse Holes’ and ‘K8lyn (With an Eight in it)' foreshadow some serious conceptual clout. The album touches on themes that resonate in today's post-truth, post-everything world: cost of living crisis; outrage culture; the state of sex; doomsday prepping and the impermanence of 21st century living.
'How Life Strange Is' was recorded in 2022-2023 at Alchemix Studios in Brisbane, Australia and produced by Marly Luske. The album serves as a space for the listener to anchor their existential dread. A support album for uncertain times.
About the artist
Preloved Things
Preloved Things were regurgitated from the very bottom of the rabbit hole. They are dynamical, maniacal, poetical, a little political. This art-rock group from Brisbane play meticulously constructed songs that charm, challenge and confound.
In 2018 they released their debut EP 'Kitchen Sink Drama'. They won best music video at the West End Film Festival that year for their song 'Entertaining the Thought (of Leaving You)'.
Their live shows are like an organism that became sentient after lightning struck a bar fight and a philosophy lecture at the same time. Rumor has it, Preloved Things have the power to temporarily interrupt the iPhone co-dependence of jaded millennials and Gen Z’ers. No mean feat.
"I would hurdle the fiery sinkholes to hell, to see this art-rock chef-d’oeuvre played live." - Brisbane Indie Gems