Oh Mercy

Acquiring their name from Bob Dylan’s 26th studio album, Australian dress Oh Mercy also consider impact from Dylan’s folk-infused rock and roll. Produced in Melbourne by high-school close friends Alexander Gow and Thomas Savage, Oh Mercy initial found prominence by earning the 2007 Victoria circular of the Triple J Unearthed competition, which discovered opening serves for the Australian celebration WEDDING DAY Out. Launching their debut EP, In the Nude for Appreciate, in ’09 2009, they gained constant rotation on Triple J’s playlist and have scored numerous reviews that are positive because of their idiosyncratic mixture of indie pop and traditional rock. Pursuing up with their self-recorded debut record, Privileged Woes, a couple of months afterwards, they continued to tour for 1 . 5 years, credit scoring a support slot machine with Crowded Home and producing their debut on U.S. earth on the 2010 South by Southwest celebration in Austin, Tx. Constant touring had taken its toll on Savage, who made a decision to give up Oh Mercy a couple of months before they inserted the studio room to record their second record, 2011’s Great Hurdle Grief. With Gow today becoming the main songwriter, Savage still made an appearance on the record playing electric guitar and writing some songwriting credits. The record earned the music group a nomination for an ARIA Award for Greatest Record from a Breakthrough Musician. Early 2012 noticed Oh Mercy comprehensive a mammoth U.S. tour, which finished in Portland, Oregon, to start out documenting their third record, Deep Heat. Acquiring music that Gow acquired originally created on only a piano, manufacturer Burke Reid (Liam Finn, Holly Throsby) steered Oh Mercy within a path that they hadn’t previously explored. Merging components of reggae and funk with Gow’s classic songwriting, Deep High temperature opened up a fresh frontier in the group’s currently forward-thinking undertake rock. Over another year or two, Gow spent amount of time in the U.S. contemplating his following move and composing the material that could ultimately become 2015’s WHENEVER WE Talk About Appreciate, the band’s 4th LP.