BSIDE Luxury by Emilee South

Featured Artist: Emilee South

Featured Vinyl: LUXURY

 

Alexis’ Hot Pick	Weekend
Sam’s Hot Pick	Tower

Aus Music Alert! Support this artists by purchasing this record via Bandcamp:

https://emileesouth.bandcamp.com/album/luxury-2 

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00:09 - Intro (Announcement)

Welcome to B-Side, the mini-series from Through the Creative Door. Join Alexis and Sam as they dive into the timeless world of vinyl. For Alexis, vinyl was more than music. It was a Sunday ritual she shared with her dad, listening, talking and soaking in the stories behind each album and the artwork on every sleeve. Though her dad is no longer with us, she continues this tradition with her friend, sam Timmerman. Join them as they share their passion for vinyl and the stories these records hold. 

 

00:44 - Alexis (Host)

Hello Sam. 

 

00:47 - Sam (Host)

Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome back.

 

00:51 - Alexis (Host)

Happy, Next, another week of fun

 

00:55 - Sam (Host)

Episode what seven yeah seven seven, seven. I cannot count anymore. How are we. Are we well, I'm very well, good

 

01:05 - Alexis (Host)

Good Shall. I start the timer. 

 

01:10 - Sam (Host)

Yeah, start the timer, do it. What do you have for me after you start the timer? 

 

01:13 - Alexis (Host)

It's time to go. 

 

01:15 - Sam (Host)

What do you have? 

 

01:17 - Alexis (Host)

I am so excited for this one. This is very special. 

 

01:22 - Sam (Host)

This. It's so red. 

 

01:24 - Alexis (Host)

It's so red it's so red. It's beautiful. It is a beautiful red, black and white cover for Emiliee South, Luxury. 

 

01:39 - Sam (Host)

Yeah it's beautiful. 

 

01:41 - Alexis (Host)

And if we pop it out? Look at this glorious shiny. 

 

01:45 - Sam (Host)

That is wow. Okay, everyone who's listening. You've got to get on the video Because this is so glorious. That is some sheen on a record right there. Boop, boop, boop, boop. Amazing who's Emilee South? Where's she from? 

 

02:02 - Sam (Host)

So I saw an Australian Artist Alert right. 

 

02:04 - Alexis (Host)

Yep Australian artist alert. She is in Victoria. She's absolutely killing it. I may have met her at uni. 

 

02:17 - Sam (Host)

That's a weird noise. 

 

02:18 - Alexis (Host)

That is not why we're doing this. We're doing this because she has this absolute banger of a record and it deserves everyone talking about it and listening luxury luxury. 

 

02:29 - Sam (Host)

This is so much fun, by the way I, I'm. 

 

02:33 - Alexis (Host)

I so love that I get to, because this is not something, a genre that you would normally listen to. 

 

02:38 - Sam (Host)

So no, but then every now and again I really get into it like I'll just, I'll just sit there and just right, amazing. 

 

02:49 - Alexis (Host)

Well, segue into rocking it out. My hot pick is a track called weekend. One, because it is so upbeat and infectious and such driving guitar. It's absolutely powerful. But I love the premise of the lyrics and like she's hit it out of the park with the music video as well, it's absolutely amazing. But for Weekend it's essentially lyrics talking about, um, you know, working a nine to five, wasting your youth away, waiting for the weekend is like the nutshell there you go ah, the music video killer. The song's an absolute banger. It's an earworm. Get to me head,

 

03:41 - Sam (Host)

See that I didn't get to watch that music video because I was too busy watching the music video for Control. 

 

03:48 - Alexis (Host)

Oh, that's another banger of a song, yeah. 

 

03:51 - Sam (Host)

Great song, great tune, really cool video. 

 

03:55 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, how impressive Like rolling around with roller skates. 

 

04:00 - Sam (Host)

We'll clarify roller skates. She's not rolling around on the floor. She's on roller skates and it's yeah, it's super cool. It was a lot of fun, Did we? I don't know if we found out who directed that, or was it self-directed. 

 

04:20 - Alexis (Host)

Actually didn't go down that rabbit hole to see. 

 

04:22 - Sam (Host)

That can be another rabbit hole for next time, I think. 

 

04:25 - Alexis (Host)

I will take that off. But what was your hot pick? 

 

04:31 - Sam (Host)

Oh, my hot pick was Tower and with this record, I genuinely almost didn't hear the lyrics because I was too busy going nuts to the music. So, Emilee I apologise, I was too busy going nuts to the music. That was so much fun. I put it on while I was answering emails or something, and it helped me through the. I love my clients. 

 

04:59 - Alexis (Host)

Control yes. 

 

05:05 - Sam (Host)

It was beautiful. It was so much fun. Just am I allowed to say balls to the wall, balls to the wall, absolute energy, just in your face. I loved it. I don't have much else to say apart from yes, it was great yeah, so much um, and I got my own little rabbit hole looking at um Anna Laverty, the producer, because far out as she does some stuff very, very cool. 

 

05:32 - Alexis (Host)

I'm not going to go down the whole list, but I'm just about to say, like I prior to our chat off my I wasn't like. I recognized the name, but I didn't know just how much her work is like, spread far and wide and like how many. 

 

05:51 - Sam (Host)

Absolutely. Since doing this record, she's also done stuff with Jebediah and Missy Higgins, which is super fun, but she's worked with everyone from our own dear friends Stella Donnelly, meg Mac, tania Harper, all the way through to people like Missy and Jebediah, and also up to she was assistant engineer on Lady Gaga's record. She's done stuff. She is fantastic, and what a a sound, what an absolute sound. It's very very cool. Talk to me about the artwork. 

 

06:20 - Alexis (Host)

I just want to say Emilee’s not only just knocked it out of the park with, like, the sound and the team that she's had with her, because obviously her, um, her band is super solid. So her partner, matt, plays guitar with her in this ensemble, will, who plays bass she's known will since she went to uni and like they've they've done lots of different projects together and they're super tight and, um, dan barry's on drums. So like, yeah, what a solid basis. 

So, yeah, so the artwork. How amazing. We went down a little rabbit hole to work out where it had all come from. Who was responsible for this amazing work? 

 

07:56 - Sam (Host)

Whose fault was this? 

 

07:58 - Alexis (Host)

Whose fault was this? And we came across some information about, yeah, who the illustrations were done by, which is Celeste Mountjoy, which I didn't know who that was, and then did a bit of a rabbit hole and it was like aka filthy rat bag and I was like who is this? Oh my goodness and holy moly that lady. We could talk about her on a whole other podcast

 

08:30 - Sam (Host)

Is there such a thing as seaside where we can talk about. Actually, that's weird, that sounds weird. We're not talking about beaches here, um, but yeah anyway, talking about artwork, oh my goodness yeah. 

 

08:32 - Alexis (Host)

How amazing what a style everyone needs to go and check out her work as well, and what an amazing collaboration for emily to have for her artwork. And, um, obviously that was in alongside um sebi white, who helped design the artwork. So, yeah, I think on Emilee’s website, when she talks about the cover art, she, I think she says something like it's a work of art in itself, which is so true, which is so lovely that she got inspiration. 

 

09:10 - Sam (Host)

So but yeah, check out celeste at filthy rat bag on instagram and, I believe, on tiktok as well, possibly yes that's all I can say. Just style out the ears, that's great oh yeah so. 

 

09:30 - Alexis (Host)

But I don't know. There's just so much to talk about this record because obviously the body of work, the sound's amazing. The shoot-offs of the music videos for all these tracks are just stunning. Yeah, such bangers. 

 

09:44 - Sam (Host)

So much fun I have to bring it back to the control video for a second, because I believe I recognise that space. 

 

09:52 - Alexis (Host)

What do you mean? Because? 

 

09:55 - Sam (Host)

Someone that we know and love dearly recorded in that space as well, I believe. 

 

10:01 - Alexis (Host)

It is a popular room. Here in Melbourne. It is a popular space. 

 

10:05 - Sam (Host)

That's such a cop-out answer and I love it. 

 

10:10 - Alexis (Host)

It might look familiar to you, Sam, because I have possibly done. 

 

10:13 - Sam (Host)

Yes, there we go. 

 

10:15 - Alexis (Host)

I have done a music video in there. 

 

10:16 - Sam (Host)

We dug it out of her. 

 

10:20 - Alexis (Host)

But this podcast is not about me. 

 

10:23 - Sam (Host)

No, it's not until I make it about you. 

 

10:27 - Alexis (Host)

But you know I'm in good stead if I have picked a location for music videos in the same calibre. 

 

10:35 - Sam (Host)

It's very true. It is very true. 

 

10:37 - Alexis (Host)

Yeah, but do you have any runner-ups of your special picks? 

 

10:47 - Sam (Host)

To be honest, I could pick four or five, so not really yeah, I spent the whole time on the, on this record again, bouncing up and down, just going. Yeah, control was a lot of fun. It was a little bit more um for me, I got to chill a little bit more to it, but again, just fun. I was looking at, actually just looking at a couple bits of info. Oh, that's time Looking at a bit of info about Emilee in general. 

 

11:26

Just in terms of where they've performed for the EPs before Luxury as well, Stuff like your Lily Palooza, Big Sound Americanas and Kilderfest in Brunswick. They're not small festivals either. We're talking about people who are releasing stuff after playing really solid shows, and I would love to see these guys live. Emilee, please just bring me to Melbourne or come to Perth Either way. 

 

12:00 - Alexis (Host)

Let's harass her. Make her do a tour over in. WA yeah, 

 

12:03 - Sam (Host)

Absolutely Jump in a van, go around the country. I love it, I love it. 

 

12:11 - Alexis (Host)

All right, all right, brother, that's it for this week. 

 

12:13 - Sam (Host)

Thank you very much for having me. As always, Emilee South Luxury, get your hands and your ears on it 

 

12:28 - Alexis (Host)

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