Have You Heard: Flowermouth

Flowermouth launch their EP, Urethane, at Amplifier Bar this Saturday, July 18, with support from The Others, Puck and Filthy Apes. We catch up with spokes-drummer Colby Bignell for a bit of background and some baffling references to.

What’s the Flowermouth story? We’re pretty much just mates from high school or met in jam rooms from earlier bands when we were young. We all used to play hardcore but we’ve gone soft.

What’s your sound? It’s kind of like a neo-liberal alternative post-grunge infusion. In a perfect world we’d be a little more heavy on the funk, but alas - our biggest influences are bands like brand new, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Beatles and Weird Al Yankovic.

Tell us about Urethane. Urethane is a bunch of songs we wrote and recorded ourselves in Cam’s (Cameron Murphy) shed in Belmont. I think he wrote it about a girl or something. I dunno, could’ve just as likely been about flavoured milk. The name comes from the type of material used to make skateboard wheels. And with that I finally opened my chemistry set to make the urethane molecules on the cover.

Why did you release via Shaman Records? NG and Geo are some of our best friends, and we’re psyched to be doing it with Shaman Records. It couldn’t have happened without them and we’re real thankful. I guess it gives NG something to do while he lays low from the 5-0.

What’s the rest of the year got in store for you? I guess we’ll play a few gigs and throw a few more frothies over the amps tab.

Originally published in X-Press Magazine