"I'm Too Much Of A Perfectionist Sometimes"

Just under ten years ago, Lincoln le Fevre & The Insiders put together what would become their debut, 30-Watt Heart. Fast forward a few years, a couple of albums and a brief solo stint, le Fevre has reunited with his Insiders for Come Undone.

Come Undone is the first offering from le Fevre since 2013's Split, a venture in all things emo-country. Five years is a sizeable break between drinks and it's something le Fevre explains wasn't entirely planned.

"It wasn't a decision to wait necessarily. I just take a long time to get things done, as evidenced by the pile of washing that I'm looking at right now," jokes le Fevre over the phone. "I mean, it's a bunch of things. I'd just go through periods where I just didn't feel like writing, and I'd go through periods where I do write but I don't like anything I'm doing.

"I'm too much of a perfectionist sometimes, that can even just stop me from starting. So you know, it was just a long process because I just wasn't being prolific at all, and on top of that, I probably had some preconceived ideas about what I wanted this record to sound like and so that was kind of constricting in a way to try to write to something that fits."

What eventuated was Come Undone, an album full of captivating imagery, solid melodies and le Fevre's ever descriptive and insightful lyrics.

"It's actually close to what I pictured, I guess. I definitely didn't want to write the same album as Resonation. I was always so happy with Resonation, I didn't think I could ever do that again and I didn't want to," he shares. "I get bored pretty quick and we had this one song called Newcastle, which is just this heavy, dark thing compared to everything else we'd done and I just needed a record that that was going to work in the context of. In that sense, the record turned out exactly how I wanted, because it's dark and it's louder and heavier than the last one was."

Le Fevre & The Insiders are heading off on tour throughout August and September, something he describes as "going to be a fun time, [there's] some great supports that I'm looking forward to catching up with and having a drink with."

Over the past few years, le Fevre's become synonymous with his Couch Residency series; a string of intimate shows where he pulls up a chair (or couch, if you will) in pubs all around to play a solo set and really connect with the crowd.

"I love playing solo because it's a totally different type of interaction with the audience and a different type of communication, and I just really enjoy it. And the Couch Residency, the couch series that I do, is just like an amplified, more intense intimacy," he says.

"Being on a couch and making it feel like you're in someone's lounge room, even though we're all drunk at the pub, I think is just kind of fun. And it becomes much more conversational and more inclusive, that's what I hope for anyway. I'm actually working on trying to organise a national tour, for the couch show, because I just love doing it."