On The Wall In The Morning Light Great Gable

• 1Dancing Shoes03:57
• 2Another Day04:02
• 3Sidewalk04:38
• 4The Lookout03:54
• 5Our Love03:52
• 6Hazy04:04
• 7If You & I03:47
• 8When I Grow Up03:30
• 9I Know03:44
• 10Pedestal04:05
• 11Sirens03:32
• 12Do You Belong03:03
• Total Runtime46:08

Info for On The Wall In The Morning Light

Fresh from a lap of the country on a national tour, today Great Gable announces their second studio album On The Wall In The Morning Light, available Friday 8 July via Rainbow Valley Records. To mark the release, the Perth four-piece have unveiled the exuberant new single Dancing Shoes.

On the opening stanza Dancing Shoes, Great Gable sets the pace at a hot simmer, alongside a dependable drum and bass foundation that allows the pot to overflow with abandon every time the buoyant chorus hits. “The song is about taking chances,” says lead guitarist Matt Preen. “It’s about not knowing what might happen, but putting yourself in a vulnerable position can lead to the most wonderful and loveliest moments.”

On The Wall In The Morning Light is a record brimming with youthful exuberance balanced by a confidence that comes with experience, a new level of sophistication not at the expense of f.u.n. - it’s Great Gable’s propulsively rhythmic, evocative guitar-driven rock’n’roll enriched with experience. The album features the aforementioned Dancing Shoes, and recent singles Hazy, Another Day and Our Love.

The band - comprising Alex Whiteman (vocals), Matt Preen (guitar), Callum Guy (drums) and Christopher Bye (bass) - worked separately during lockdown and together in between, and arrived at Matt Corby’s newly minted Rainbow Valley Studios to record their second album. With Corby and Alex Henriksson in the producer’s chairs there was a welcome familiarity to the process and with Corby very literally in his element and the band living and working on site for close to a month, the process of recording was fluid. Recording the new material from scratch, the band aimed to retain an elegant simplicity to the more direct and potent batch of songs, with guitars purposely brought to the fore.

Great Gable

Great Gable
From meeting on the cricket pitch to recording their debut album with the help of Matt Corby, Great Gable are not a band to do things in the standard way. Never ones to worry about industry hype, Alex Whiteman (vocals), Matt Preen (guitar), Callum Guy (drums) and Christopher Bye (bass) have spent the past few years focused on one thing only – getting their music heard by their fans. With very little radio or media attention, the band have quietly been selling out multiple national and international tours and amassing millions of online streams for their music, building themselves a die-hard fan base that has stuck with them every step of the way.

2019 was a year of heavy touring for Great Gable, but along with this was the growing feeling that the time was right to record their debut album. Between touring stints around the country and sold out shows on their first trip to New Zealand, they carved out time to write the songs that would form the basis for the record. Written in a cabin among the Karri forests and a Chestnut Farm in the south west of Western Australia, Tracing Faces is an album that fully reflects the solid relationship that the band have after years of writing and touring together. The songs bring together the band’s diverse musical tastes, with each member offering their own unique and considerable talent to the writing and recording process. The result is a collection of music that showcases the incredible range and influence of the band, with no two songs alike.

They spent several weeks recording the album at one of Australia’s most iconic studios – The Music Farm in Byron Bay. Coming on board to produce the album were Alex Henriksson & Matt Corby, marking the first time the pair have joined forces on an album outside Corby’s own music. Rounding out the heavy-hitting recording team was LA-based engineer Matthew Neighbour (Matt Corby, Cold War Kids, Cousin Tony’s Brand New Firebird) who mixed the album, and Matthew Agoglia of The Ranch Mastering (Gorillaz, James Taylor, The Old 97’s) who finished it off, guaranteeing that this is a collection of songs that have been given first-class treatment from beginning to end.

This album contains no booklet.