Seabellies Come Alive @ Beach Road Hotel

Multi-instrumentalist Newcastle sextet Seabellies wrenched hearts at Beach Road Hotel recently tailing off their national By Limbo Lake LP release tour. They’re a band that have managed to channel their once-choppy instrument-swapping stage performance into a tight tank of dreamy indie-pop: without drowning out the energy. Their swoon-worthy melodies bound simply and beautifully over a complex layering of synth, sampling and at times an entire brass fanfare: the band rallying the crowd as they crescendoed into “Ices” to begin their set, incidentally the first track of the LP. Seabellies music is weighted in nostalgia and lifted by front-man Trent Grenell’s playful falsetto and the band’s rollicking musical phrases as they dance that fine line between sweetness and sorrow.

Check out the video for their latest release “Trans Ending” below for a taste:



The Bellies are a band with more raw talent than Ozzy Osbourne’s speech pathologist and yet they seem to have been left off many a summer festival line up (Laneway? What gives?). Fortunately, you can catch them at Peats Ridge Festival just out of Sydney this New Years or if you're in Melbourne, they have a Wednesday night residency with Aleks and Ramps @ the Evelyn.

If you haven’t seen these kids live, get your head out of the fish bowl and some sea into your belly: you’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll probably get really drunk and send inappropriate picture messages to your ex – but it will be well worth the ride.

You can stream or grab a copy of By Limbo Lake from the Seabellies website.

In the meantime have a listen to their cover of Angels classic "Am I Ever Going to See Your Face Again" for Triple J's Like a Verson below, amazing stuff: