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Songs That Shaped Us – goodbyemot​el

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Melbourne, Australia’s goodbyemotel are the quintessential 21st century band. Hailing from three continents, their music comes with a wide-eyed grandiosity and ambitious visual element that appeals to listeners and concertgoers across borders and subcultures.

Fronted by the Swedish-Australian Gustaf Sjodin Enstrom, with support from Tom Marks, Scott Pioro, David Schmidt, and New Yorker Paul Amorese, goodbyemotel took shape after members kept crossing paths in the local Melbourne music scene. Soon afterward, they released their debut EP Information, followed by end/play, recorded in an old church with Kalju Tonuma (Crowded House, Evermore). Their self-titled debut album dropped in 2010 after three years of writing and recording. It yielded the single “Watching You,” which featured in the Oaktree Foundation’s TV ad campaign to end child slavery on MTV and other U.S. networks.

More recently, goodbyemotel gained wider exposure through their People EP, which was released in October 2012 and yielded the massively successful “Set It Off.” Currently featured in a Australian national TV ad campaign for Chrysler, “Set It Off” has also appeared on TV shows such as Gossip Girl, Covert Affairs, and Suits, as well as in the feature film “Summer Coda.”

Watch “Set It Off” Here –

See their 4D Live Music Experience Here:

written by  Dave Schmidt – Key’s / BV’s goodbyemotel

Jeff Buckley –  ’Grace’

Trying to boil down “The Song’s That Shaped Us” is a tough gig when everything from hip hop, jazz, pop, rock, dance and folk have played a role in my musical kaleidoscope. When I think back to my earliest musical awakenings I can’t go past Jeff Buckley’s amazing track Grace for the album with the same name. I call these moments “musical epiphanies”, where everything just makes sense in that one riff, or chorus, or drum fill etc. We’ve all had them I’m sure. I first heard the track blaring out of my older brothers bedroom and i just couldn’t believe what I was hearing. His usual cacophony of sad mopey The Cure tracks had been replaced by a bright melodic and angular texture that was immediately memorable, like a new friend that you felt like you’d known forever. Now, I’m not a guitarist, let me just get that out of the way. I loved the riff so much that I just had to find a way to learn it.As soon as my brother left the house I stole his CD disc-man, dragged it into the lounge room where the piano was and proceeded to pause, rewind and play over and over until I had the riff down note for note. To this day I haven’t heard many riffs that have grabbed my ears quite like this one.

 

Radiohead – ‘Paranoid Android’

My second music epiphany to the best of my memory was Paranoid Android. I remember hearing it whilst getting ready to go to school in the morning. I was too young to just go out and purchase the track and this was before the days of downloading tracks. So all I could do was lurk around stereo’s hoping to hear it again. Melody again was the big thing but this time the accompanying guitar sounds mashed together to produce sounds I’d never heard before. Interwinding guitars with different tones and clever sustain rang out and I was hooked. At this stage in my musical evolution i’d only ever owned a terrible old Roland EP9 keyboard that had simple piano, rhodes and organ. Radiohead effected my yearning to pretend to be a guitarist so much that I started collecting guitar peddles and lining them up across the top of my large dinosaur or a keyboard. It started with the RV-3 replicating all of the various delay’s of Jonny Greenwood’s guitar. I then wanted more body so I got into distortions, tremolos and even pitch shifters. Before I knew it I was head deep into the buying and trading world of eBay. Every new purchase was a potential door to a new soundscape and layer to the music we were playing. I guess this was the start of goodbyemotel’s direction into multi-layered sound. We are never settled with a specific sound or direction and are always on the lookout for something new and fresh that opens our little music minds.

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