Dan Kelly ‘Goldfeels’ Album Out Now

Dan Kelly ‘Goldfeels’ Album Out Now

The music goes far beyond anything obvious or straight ahead to encompass the nexus of Dan’s idiosyncratic perspective, unerring gift for character portraiture and impressionistic storytelling. Each record acts like an epic Australian novel, but the arresting effervescent imagination of his beautiful melodies, masterful guitarwork and the saturated texture of the production.

The mighty Dan Kelly’s magical 5th album, GOLDFEELS is yet another gargantuan lesson in artful yet instantly appealing album making. Kelly covers new ground on this largely piano-based offering (with distant echoes of Randy Newman and John Cale), telling musical stories about sex, death, grief, and bushfires – what more could you ask for?” Peter Jesperson 

Dan’s breakthrough albums with his band The Alpha Males, Sing The Tabloid Blues (2004), and the J Award-nominated Drowning In The Fountain Of Youth (2006) painted a frenetic portrait of Melbourne’s share house life. Dan Kelly’s Dream (2010) presented a series of vignette travelogues of eccentrics and outsiders. Leisure Panic! (2015) made his focus geographical, a panorama of Northern New South Wales, introducing more folk and pastoral elements into his signature anime-inflected adventure rock.

A rumination on cycles of time, GOLDFEELS, takes us on a journey through the goldfields of Dja Dja Wurrung land in Central Victoria.

Birthed from a maelstrom of family grief and pandemic isolation, the album sounds as wide open as the landscapes that inspired it. Written by Dan alone at the piano, the album is sonically sparser than the infinite layer cake sound of previous records, with propulsive percussive energy locked into a heavy, steady groove. GOLDFEELS holds you in dawn and dusk, moments of reflection and speculation. Biblical imagery and apocalyptic raveups sit alongside lost love, the insidious pull of online radicalisation, environmental degradation and classic DK character odysseys like the epic Sea Shepherd Cook.

Produced and engineered by multi-instrumentalist Dan Luscombe (Courtney Barnett, The Drones, Amyl And The Sniffers), the album also features a crème de la crème, de la crème, crème de la crème of Australia’s most respected musicians: Tropical Fuck Storm’s Erica Dunn and Lauren Hammel, Jess Ribeiro, Amanda Roff (Harmony, Time For Dreams, Don Walker), Ben Woolley (Marlon Williams), award-winning saxophonist Julien Wilson, Gus Agars (Marlon Williams, Robyn Hitchcock), Peter Luscombe (Paul Kelly, The Black Sorrows) and Tom Lyncolgn (Harmony, Nation Blue).

While the album deals with darker and heavier themes than he has explored previously, it still brims with unexpected and invigorating moments of music on every track, pulling from influences from the most idiosyncratic sides of Sly Stone, Neil Young and John Lennon, flavours of classic indie rock. 

Mostly, it still sounds like Dan Kelly music, just the next evolution forward for an artist who has always been driven to find new frontiers of imagination and exploration.

Dan Kelly & Regional Crisis GOLDFEELS Australian Album Tour 
With Special Guests

Sun Sept 8 Bridge Hotel  Castlemaine VIC
With Special Guest Grant Roff

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Sat Sept 21 Polish Club   Hobart TAS

With special guest SPOD
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Fri Nov 8 Petersham Bowlo Petersham NSW
With Special Guests David McCormack and The Polaroids 

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Sat Nov 9 Howler Melbourne VIC
With Special Guests SPOD and Baby Blue 

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Sat Nov 16 Franks Wild Years Thirroul NSW
*SOLO Afternoon show
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Sun Nov 17 Smiths Alternative Bookstore  Canberra ACT
* SOLO Afternoon show
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Thurs Nov 21 Junkyard   Maitland NSW
* SOLO Afternoon show
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Fri Dec 6 Grace Emily Adelaide SA
With Special Guests, The Maraby Band 

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Fri Dec 13 It’s Still A Secret Brisbane QLD
With guests TBC
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Sat Dec 14 Eltham Hotel Eltham NSW
With Special Guests Headland 

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GOLDFEELS Track listing: 

  1. Intro 
  2. Goldfields Doctor 
  3. At The Bushfire Benefit
  4. Golden Shoes 
  5. Back To The Garden 
  6. Lakes Of Menindee 
  7. Burn Up With The Trees 
  8. Sea Shepherd Cook  
  9. The Hero Is You 
  10. Regional Crisis 
  11. Escape From The Internet