Justine Keating, Journalist

It isn’t easy to warm to in its preliminary stages, but once you’re taken in Unimagine proves to be an exceptional album.

While they’ve certainly injected a little something to the pop punk genre with J.A.C.K. by throwing in a couple of their own curveballs, it isn’t really enough to make the album all that memorable.

It takes a couple of listens for An Object to prove itself as the musically rich and brilliantly put-together album that it really is.

Once you push past the onslaught of fairly generic rock that presents itself for quite a dominant duration of the album, Sleep Parade prove that they’re able to switch things up a little and write music with a bit of heart.

As harrowing as it is beautiful, this is the kind of album that stays with you long after the final note has sounded.

This pair have a little while to go before they settle on the right balance of frivolity and conviction, but if this album is anything to go by they’re already halfway there.

The sound of Graham’s home recordings that made up Empty Vessels were nothing short of charming, but the tidier tracks of his latest effort hint at a more mature musician still brimming with all the same heart.

"Instrumental music is in Australia and it has always been around, but it definitely does feel like Australia lags behind by a few years in taking up instrumental music or post-rock/post-metal music."