2017 was a weird year for Paddy Harrowsmith, the man behind Sydney’s Green Buzzard. After releasing the “Space Man Rodeo EP” the band had dissolved into a solo project, his relationship had broken up and he found himself swimming in the classic late-20s malaise of, “who am I and what the hell am I doing with my life?” The songs that followed started to paint a picture of Harrowsmith wading through the clutter and the mess of confusion to not only work out what kind of music he wanted to make, but to also make sense of the world around him and to find his place in it.
Armed with an album’s worth of songs, Paddy found himself, physically at least, in producer Dave Sitek’s rambling studio in the Glendale Hills in California. Home not only to the eccentric Sitek (production wizz behind Yeah Yeah Yeahs, TV On The Radio and Weezer), but also to his Russian sound engineer, his brother who tends to Sitek’s organically farmed marijuana plants throughout the house and property, “Cuz”, his housekeeper and childhood friend from Baltimore who sits in the garage all day making necklaces out of pine cones, three huskies, three cats, and an inexplicable number of BB guns.
The result is a textured and perfectly crafted indie rock record and while it’s far from being anywhere near a singer-songwriter record, there’s a very human impetus at the heart of each song: one person singing their song to you. Across its 12 tracks, the record covers a lot of themes: break ups (I Don’t Want To Be Alone), resignation (Nothing’s Happening Here), the desire to up stumps and retreat to a rural idyll (Country Living), acerbic takedowns of Sydney’s greedy excesses (Suburban Dreaming) and existential confusion, as life and the future seem to stretch out into uncertainty (Wooden Dog).
Ultimately though, Amidst the Clutter and Mess is a statement about learning to be comfortable with yourself, no longer keeping the world at arm’s length by telling fictional stories, or hiding behind fuzz and overproduction.
Title: Amidst The Clutter And Mess - Coloured Vinyl
Format: Vinyl
Release Date: 08 Nov 2019
Artist: Green Buzzard
Sku: 2435353
Catalogue No: IOU310
Category: Rock
DISC 1
A1 Country Life
A2 I Don’t Want To be Alone
A3 To Be Like You
A4 Forget You
A5 Wooden Dog
A6 Clutter & Mess
B1 Aches The Heart
B2 Nothing’s Wasted
B3 Put Me Under
B4 Nothing’s Happening Here
B5 Suburban Dreaming
B6 Masquerader
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