Broads "Vacancy" Album Launch At The Grace Emily

Following their 2016 sweeping national tour with lead single “Nod Off, Dream”, a darkly subjective song with a slow-burn, lullaby aesthetic, Melbourne indie-noir crooners Broads (Kelly Day and Jane Hendry) are heading to Adelaide's Grace Emily Hotel to launch their debut album “Vacancy” on 15 July 2017. 

Vacancy, described by one critic as an ‘aural wonderland’, was named Album of the Week on Australia’s oldest independent broadcaster, Melbourne’s 3RRR FM, as well as Feature Album on PBS FM, Melbourne’s progressive broadcasting station, the week of its release. Lead single ‘Nod Off, Dream’ has rotation on Double J and has enjoyed several Triple J outings too.

“This album has wrecked me. It has rendered me incapable of forming the right words, of stringing together the right sentences, to properly convey its mesmerizing beauty.” (Chip McCabe, The Metal Dad)

“a mellifluous collection of songs utterly drenched in enticing melodies and harmonies... a simply gorgeous, often haunting, always sublime inaugural full-length outing…” (The Music)

With guest appearances by acclaimed Melbourne musicians Alex O'Gorman on bass, Sarah Galdes on drums, Matt Dixon and Dan Lethbridge on electric guitars, VACANCY sees Broads at their most mesmerising and panoramic.

From the spacious opening track “Green Screen”, the album weaves through a cast of characters riddled with self-delusion, longing, regret and paranoia. “I Can’t Stop Thinking (I’m Going To Die)” wraps tongue-in-cheek morbidity in hooky country twang, “The Valley” paints a feverish portrait of longing and “Nod Off, Dream” showcases lush vocals with one foot in reality and the other in the dark subconscious. Overall, VACANCY seems to dive through the veneer of everyday fantasies and explore the space beneath - sometimes with dry wit, often with worldly pathos.

Jane Hendry and Kelly Day say "Vacancy is our first full length album, and first venture into a denser, more orchestrated sound than our original duo. We stole some of our favourite Melbournians to join the two of us on the record, and explore the possibilities of turning it into something quite cinematic. In saying that, the sounds we've put together are still fairly sparse. The album turned out to revolve around ideas of emptiness, or hollowness, and you can't tackle that without really making use of space. That will always be a big part of what we do, and we're thrilled to have managed to keep that feel with a full band involved."

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