IT’S TIME TO LET THE WOLVES OUT – DAMON SMITH AT LEAPS & BOUNDS MUSIC FEST – 10 JULY, YARRA HOTEL #lbmf

 

Damon Smith is deliriously happy to finally launch ‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’, the debut single and from his shiny new soon-to-be released album on Thursday, 10 July from 8pm at Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford, as part of the Leaps & Bounds Music Festival.

‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ enters the room with strut and swagger, all souled-out and funked up with righteous backing vocals set against the backdrop of a hugely contagious melody.  It’s a fitting opener to an album filled with those rare things – intelligent pop songs, 10 of them all up.

Here’s a listening link to the single:

https://soundcloud.com/quality-lightweights/its-time-to-let-the-wolves-out

Since his 2011 alt country release, ‘I Thought I’d Be Someone By Now’, potential candidate for a celebrated contemporary songwriter award but winner of none, Damon Smith has had 5 teeth pulled and has enjoyed the battle of a perpetually changing hairstyle due to a bastard receding hair line.With a new life in a new home as a stay at home dad and with weekend work around the country as a boogie woogie blues piano player, Smith says of his last few years with a baby girl in tow, “what the hell happened?”

His sufficient stockpile of issues, predicaments and complications have been discharged through his latest batch of songwriting, coming up with a record named:

‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’.

From the opening title track, Smith invites you inside his home. It’s warm (and often stinky) in there and there’s a sense of intimacy and a hint of the man who creates in his home studio, behind his house where he autonomously worked on these10 maudlin yet jaunty new songs.

Damon says of the single: “The chorus lyrics for Wolves are, ‘It’s time to let the wolves out, and time to let the love back in. You’ve built yourself a crumbling wall and now it’s time to climb it.’ meaning: take control of your actions, don’t be selfish and be sensitive to others while taking your rage and aggression by the scruff of the neck and throwing it out the window violently…you know, like an action movie, with glass and stuff flying everywhere!”.

Smith is an independent artist in the literal. He’s the man in the driver’s seat, from composition to production and with help from producer Fraser Montgomery on mixing duties this time around, he delivers a record of substantial listening quality.

With an unrestrained desire for spitting out his tales of ordinary life while ruminating on thought-provoking subject matter, ‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ revolves heavily around the idea of relationships.

He dances provocatively with his own issues throughout this record, breathes life into these troubles and woes and then punches them square in the face, revealing his ability to evoke emotion in the listener while the music itself unravels, layer after layer, melody after melody.

Accompanied by The Quality Lightweights during live shows, Smith has built a solid reputation in his hometown of Melbourne.
Don’t miss the single launch for ‘It’s Time To Let The Wolves Out’ on Thursday, 10 July from 8pm at Yarra Hotel in Abbotsford.  Support TBA, Free Entry.
 

Leaps and Bounds Music Festival is proudly presented by City of Yarra, Music Victoria, Beat Magazine & PBS 106.7 FM with the support of the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation.

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