Why Music Is An Escape For Cool Explosions

Elle Young has her description of Cool Explosions' sound down pat: "Like Little Richard driving an old ice cream van relentlessly around Melbourne's northern suburbs blasting out Alan Vega and Rihanna mash-ups." The collection started as a studio project of keys master Matty Vehl, who had "produced a number of instrumental beats, and asked me to collaborate," explains Young. "A really natural and intuitive songwriting relationship developed quickly, and when Alex joined us on drums soon after, a special kinda chemistry clicked."

For Young, "Music has always been an escape, and seems the most natural way for me to creatively express my feelings. Sonic beauty never fails to capture my attention time and time again." When putting together their new single Cold Fire, Young says that their "process has followed more or less the same pattern for most of our songs. We'll have story idea figured, and some lyric lines maybe. Then I'll improvise phrases over a beat. Matty then sets about decoding my improvisations into syllables and tailors lyric phrases that seem to work best".

Produced and recorded at home, "we'd bounce ideas around singing at the piano, and then when we felt we had something, run straight down the back to the studio to put it down. We also worked on collecting imagery from anywhere we could find to piece together a story about our project, and our sound."

While they only had their first gig last month, they're already looking at releasing a follow-up single or two within the coming months. Stay tuned!