Some words from Tom on the new album.
This record is about...growing up. I think. It's about dealing with your own stuff for once. Accepting responsibility, maybe. It's a self help book addressed to myself. And just like every other piece of art ever made in history of the hominid, I was going through some shit when I was making it. I'd just left home and everyone I knew, looking to chase a dream. It was an awkward phase, like stage two puberty. I was learning how to be grown. Humility had my pride in a headlock. I was the old man at the art exhibition, the young boy at the art gallery. Everyone was in a K-hole, I was at K-Mart.
A video – filmed entirely inside the crumbling shell ofAuckland's beloved St James Theatre – is out on Friday.
TRACKLISTING
1. Years Gone By
2. Pocket Lint
3. F(riends)
4. Water Medley
5. Old Dogs
6. Home
7. Quincy's March
8. Tea Break
9. Afternoon Tea (vinyl only)
10. Train Wreck (vinyl only)
11. Mt Roskill Interlude (vinyl only)