The VANNS recently released their new album, All That’s In My Head, and to celebrate the release, they’ve shared a track-by-track exploration of how it came together for The Music.

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The Australian band recorded their latest LP across two fortnight-long sessions: one in London, and the other in Wollongong. The eleven-track album showcases the growth and durability of the group and follows the hit album Last Of Your Kind, which debuted at #8 on the ARIA Charts upon its release in March 2023.

Since forming a decade ago, The VANNS have made a name for themselves with relentless tours, festival appearances, and a string of successful albums and singles.

Comprising frontman and rhythm guitarist Jimmy Vann, lead guitarist Cameron Little, bassist Tom Switlek, and drummer Andrew “Banjo” Banovich, The VANNS have become a tight unit and one of the most in-demand live acts in the country.

To celebrate the release of All That’s In My Head and the band’s upcoming tour, check out their track-by-track exploration of the album below. Tickets to The VANNS’ forthcoming tour are available here.

The VANNS - All That’s In My Head Track by Track

Accomplice

A song about having the complete support of somebody in life, no matter what you’re going through or maybe even putting yourself through. It’s a hopeful love song dressed up as a quasi-crime story, and vice versa.

Golden Eyes

A really fun one to write and record. Slippery guitar riffs, lyrically inverted pre-choruses and a half-time instrumental section, we really just had a ball making it.

For God’s Sake

A song about looking back on your life thus far and realising that you may have a tendency to self-sabotage and put yourself in situations conducive to your downfall - “Please inform the public, a former alcoholic’s coming to a bar near them soon”.

In And Out

One of the first songs we recorded during our sessions in London. To me, it’s essentially a song about assurance. A “whatever we’re going through, and whatever life throws at us, I ain’t going anywhere, and hopefully it’ll all make sense in the end” kinda thing.

Gas Craic

A really fun song to make! We were lucky enough that our mate Brad Cox was in town when we were recording it, and getting him to sing some backing vocals on it really gave the song its own unique home on the record.

You Are All That’s In My Head

A song about finding something you weren’t quite sure you ever would, and it always being at the forefront of your mind. It’s a pretty direct title, and the choruses are pretty direct also, which freed the verses up to be a little more ambiguous.

Feather

Any song we can somehow work a heavy riff into is always a good time for the four of us. I can’t wait to play this one live.

Strangers To Neighbours

“The multitude of lives that I could lead before the morning sun comes through” - I can honestly say I have no idea what this song is specifically about, but it’s a feeling, or a bunch of feelings, centred around feeling confused about, well, most things.

Up All Night

Thematically, this track is about having a whole bunch of life questions and not being able to find answers in the places you’ve been looking, and feeling quite overwhelmed and exhausted by that “search”.

Millionaires

We tried a few different approaches to recording this one, but in the end, we essentially just did a live take without getting too lost in the possibilities of where you could take it production-wise.

Read My Mind

I really like this song as an album closer. The outro jam you hear at the end was just us mucking around at rehearsals, but we were lucky that we recorded it, so we could just drop it in at the end of the song. There’s a real organic feel to it, as opposed to if we set out to do it with the mindset of “OK, this one is for the record, don’t mess it up”.

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