The SoundLounge

Graveyard Train

Graveyard Train ripped chains and hammers from hell to forge Horror Country. They are the pioneers of a new genre that will make you cry and curse and scream. Ghost stories, murder ballads and tales of redemption are crooned through melodies plucked directly from the afterlife. Haunted love, haunted souls, even haunted clothes are typical subjects covered by the songs of the Graveyard Train. These aren’t the kind of ghost stories kids tell around the campfire – they are the tales of horror whispered by inmates in the dark, the tales of bloodlust muttered by the insane, the tales of woe and regret whimpered through dying last words. Six men play men’s instruments just as men were born to do. Chain, washboard, steel guitar, banjo and harmonica – instruments with a long history of storytelling underlay six voices tempered by whiskey, blood and poverty. Graveyard train offer penance to this town of sinners. Beware the plague of locusts, beware the hail of frogs, beware the localized apocalypse that is the Graveyard Train.

Inland Sea

The ten [awesome] members of Brisbane's Inland Sea are bound together by a love of complex harmonies and song writing [+ heap sleeping]. Since forming in early 2010 Inland Sea have won hearts [and International Song Writing Awards - yes! Also, are crabs something you win?] with their [humble and] luscious five-part vocal harmonies, interwoven instrumentation and lyrical sincerity [and the big dollar]. Creating a sound that soars [like a butterfly] and [stings like a bee or something that happens when Beau has to pee. RYHME!], their music evokes the awe, majesty, melancholy and bittersweet joy [of happy cartoon dancing whales on salvia].