There's no arguing with the fact that Aussie muso Nicholas Griffith has a ridiculous amount of talent.
Having already won over legions of fans with full-band pursuits Big White and High-Tails, he's now racking up accomplishments with his new solo project, Bourgeois Earth, signing with Sydney label Dinosaur City Records ahead of his debut LP.
The deal marks the first local signing for Dinosaur City, which itself is an ascendant prospect; having formed in "the early hours" of 2016, DCR has already released a compilation of 22 Sydney artists (including their new signee alongside city-mates Den, Spike Vincent, New Lovers, Cumin and more) and are have been curating a weekly, month-long series of parties each Wednesday this month at Newtown's Waywards.
To celebrate the new signing, Bourgeois Earth is unveiling new single Terrible Taste, which like its album brethren was recorded mostly over two weeks in Dulwich Hill during a spell of musical fertility that followed Griffith's return to the country after Big White's US tour in March 2015.
"Terrible Taste is cinematic in the way that it shifts and shakes and moves you emotionally, throughout inspiring imagery," Griffith said of the new track in a statement. "That's why I particularly wanted to make a film for this track. The film, being overtly art-house, works with clichés from bad horror movies. The twisting of the door handle, the peeling of the wax, the answering of the ever-illusive home phone. And the genius that's lost his mind."
Check it out below.
Bourgeois Earth's debut album will be released on Dinosaur City Records later this year. See the artist's Facebook page and label's website for more information.
