Daniel Cribb, Journalist

The band were never confirmed in the first place, says AJ Maddah

"When you’re younger, when you first start a band, you always think it’s going to be easy; like, you’ll record some songs, release them, get immediate triple j play, but it’s been a hard road."

"It’s hard to get any kind of press or interest when you’re an instrumental band. People don’t seem to take anything from it."

theMusic.com.au chats to Kevin Lyman and AJ Maddah

"It was a really stressful time for my family and for me, and I dealt with it quite badly at that point. I was really miserable, pretty depressed."

The ten songs on Damage, the band’s eighth studio album, have potential; they’re just not executed with the vitality one would expect from the band

It’s the angst-filled, heartfelt pop anthems that really bring this album home.

Her music was written for the acoustics of churches and cathedrals, and maybe if religious institutes had as much to offer as the church of Kate Miller-Heidke, every mass would be a sell out.