Augie March New Single ‘After The Crack Up’

Augie March’s fifth studio LP will see the light of day/the light on the inside of computers later this year.

The first song to be released from it is ‘After The Crack Up’, produced by Glenn Richards and mixed by Paul McKercher, reunited with the band after working on their first three albums – ‘Sunset Studies’, ‘Strange Bird’ and ‘Moo, You Bloody Choir’.

‘After The Crack Up’ is named after Scott Fitzgerald’s collection of later life confessionals, itself equal parts pitiful capitulation to life, and heroic confrontation of failure and addiction. It parses the DNA of a less-celebrated branch of the organic Australian male – no beast certainly – but the type who, when faced with the banality of common, uncelebrated existence and responsibility will more than likely opt for extended layover in the increasingly dingy and desperate-looking post-adolescent lounge. Henry Lawson, people’s poet, bizarrely makes an appearance with some sage advice though it’s unclear whether or not he’s really welcome at the bar.

After an eventful thirteen-year journey from Shepparton to Hollywood and back, Augie March went on indefinite hiatus in 2009. For a variety of reasons, the band ceased to exist, and band members all moved on with their lives.

Singer-songwriter Glenn Richards moved to Tasmania, where he set up a home studio. Some time later, the band were liberated from their previous recording contract and the resultant boost in independence levels proved a catalyst for Glenn Richards, Adam Donovan, Kiernan Box, Edmondo Ammendola and Dave Williams to start thinking about making music together again.

Over the past three years the band have quietly pieced together a new body of work, starting with a pool of over forty songs and gradually sifting and refining until they had the album they wanted. No clock running and only themselves to please – in a peaceful environment, under their own steam, just making the album until it was made.

‘After The Crack Up’ will be available on iTunes June 24 through Dark Satanic/Caroline .

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