After releasing two EP’s in the formative years of the band, “Sentimental Health” and “Teenage Séance”, Regionals have taken four years to experiment and develop their sound culminating in a body of work that best represents themselves and their world view.
Recorded during the winter of 2023 at Parliament studios with Lachlan Mitchell (The Jezabels, The Laurels, Totally Unicorn) and mixed & mastered by Mark Perry (Deafcult), the band succeeded in reshaping their sound, whilst adding in the light & shade of lush, atmospheric textures and jangly guitars with the abrasive attack of heavy guitars and vocal screams.
Regionals have previously toured the East Coast of Australia in support of their previous releases and have also supported Pianos Become the Teeth (USA), Blind Girls, Outright, Jacob, Strangers, Fear Like Us and Have/Hold.
About Rotator
Brett: A song that almost didn’t make it on the record actually so a nice example of finish writing the song no matter what cos I had basically given up on this one. Aaron had the music ready for quite a while and I just couldn’t find the melody on it until one day during the album session it just was there and once we started it just kinda flowed and all came together.
Aaron: Rotator was a song that was bound for the cutting room floor until the vocals were finished at the 11th hour and made the song what it is. Instrumentally, this song is probably the most similar to the tracks on our ‘Teenage Séance’ EP and is a nice link between our last record, which was 4 years ago, and this one. We may have created 2 versions of this song, but you’ll have to buy the record to find out if that’s true.
Regionals are a band who exist on the margins. The margins of introspection and belligerence, the margins of intensity and subtlety, the margins of being present, but never really there. “This is the bands truest form”, states Regionals singer/guitarist Brett Islaub when discussing the bands debut album Spoonbender.
Born from darkness, isolation induced agoraphobia and an unhealthy dose of self reflection, Spoonbender marks a change of course for the Sydney band, showcasing their sound as more extreme and experimental than previous releases.
