51st Avenue are back with a brand new track to kick off the new year and a new chapter, with a single fittingly titled, ‘Chapters’. The song is the first release from the band since the track ‘Find Me’ further positioned the Sydney trio as ones to watch. A formidable entry into the band’s growing catalogue of work, ‘Chapters’ is an exciting hint at what is soon to come for the group, who are anticipating a busy first half of the year.
‘Chapters’ continues to build on the foundations of songs like ‘Find Me’, ‘Mind Your Own’ and ‘Remnant’, bolstering 51st Avenue’s creation of hard-hitting and exciting music that fuses electronic and pop music together with heavy rock influences. For ‘Chapters’, the band worked with Mark Williamson at Keywork Audio in Sydney, leaning into the dynamic punk-pop energy that has been teased through previous work.
Here, it soars.
“The theme and meaning of the lyrics is really about friendship over time, and how time and distance doesn’t necessarily equate to a loss of friendship. There are some friendships that are able to withstand time, distance and other factors, and in some circumstances, one party may think the friendship is over when in fact, that couldn’t be further from the truth.”
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Accompanying the release of the single, 51st Avenue have also delivered official visuals for ‘Chapters’. Working with Oliver Clark (Dunelabs), the band brought the energy of the song to life in a really cool visual representation.
“This was the third video we’d shot within a month and we’d started to run out of ideas. The venue really lent itself quite heavily in terms of inspiration and we just vibed with it for the whole day. Oli really knocked it out of the park when it came to the editing and it turned out to be a really fun video!”
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51st Avenue have made a name for themselves as a dynamic live group, cutting their teeth on stages across the East Coast with the likes of The Beautiful Monument, Eat Your Heart Out, Hands Like Houses and more.
Embraced by the alternative music community and inspired by the waves of new sounds that have been thriving within it in recent years, the group’s output is versatile and cohesive. As such, they have been winning acclaim from industry, with support via triple j and Triple J Unearthed keeping 51st Avenue on broader radars, while tastemakers like Heavy Magazine, and Wall Of Sound have been throwing consistent support behind the band’s continued evolution and creativity.
‘CHAPTERS’ is released Thursday 11 January