TERRY - 'Remember Terry'
by TERRY
£10.00 / Sold Out
Artist: TERRY
Title: Remember Terry
Label: Upset The Rhythm
Catalogue Number: UTR097
Formats: LP / CD / DIGITAL
Running Time: 30 mins
Release Date: Friday 30th June
Track listing:
01. Rio
02. Start The Tape
03. Take Me To The City
04. Risk
05. Give Up The Crown
06. Heavin’ Heavies
07. Glory
08. Gun
09. The Colonel
10. Homage
Terry is a latent man of mystery. Terry is also a band from Melbourne, Australia. Divide him in half and you split the genders, into quarters and you get Amy Hill (also of Constant Mongrel, School Of Radiant Living), Xanthe Waite (Mick Harvey Band, Primo), Zephyr Pavey (Eastlink, Total Control, Russell St Bombings) and Al Montfort (UV Race, Dick Diver, Total Control). Guitars, bass, drums, all four sing. Terry are busy people and Terry is a particularly active project too, having released two EPs and a full length album (‘Terry HQ’) last year on Upset The Rhythm.
After returning from summer 2016’s European tour, Terry set about writing a new album of songs. These are now grouped together as ‘Remember Terry’, an album full of wish fulfilment, critiqued characters, memorial muscle and historical hustle.’Start The Tape’ is a not quite two-minute careen through what Terry are best known for; gang vocals, chased-down melodies and acerbic commentary. “The Boys in Blue are no nonsense, but no nonsense just won’t hold up” they assert throughout the song, amid unbridled drum rolls and keyboard sirens.
Terry draw on their everyday realities to make personal conclusions; “I can’t live here, I can’t leave here” they collectively sing through the strummed guitars and skittling synths of ‘Heavin Heavies’. Somehow the serious nature of the themes handled in their songs are only further emphasised by the tuneful, arguably ‘sing-along’ treatment Terry usually employ. ‘Give Up The Crown’, ‘The Colonel’ and ‘Gun’ are other prime examples of this, packed full of assembled vocal harmonies, contagious riffs and rhetoric.
With tracks like ’Glory’ and ‘Homage’, Terry allow us for the first time to see a more laid-back side of his personality. Supplemented with fluorescing synth lines and adopting an unhurried pace, both songs lull you into a false sense of pleasantry, only to pack a greater punch when lyrics like “Off his bloody head goes” or “No head, no choice, no land, no time, no crime, no good” surface. ‘Take Me To The City’ is a similarly evocative stroll through the “bright night city lights”, with Amy and Xanthe listing their nightlife observations over languorous guitar lines and programmed drums. Their “all they talk about..” refrain drifts off effortlessly into dazed disclosures. Terry prefer to make a profound point in a quiet way, hectoring bypassed for self-revelation. The truth is in there, just skating below the surface of their glammy, country-stepping punk/pop odysseys, we only have to listen carefully.
‘Remember Terry’ is a fitting follow-up to last year’s celebrated debut album. Ideas are pursued and new ground explored. Throughout this expansion of sound and subject-matter though, Terry remain committed to telling it straight, reporting from the frontline of the political made personal. ’Remember Terry ‘ was recorded by Terry at Grace Lane and Terry HQ through the first few months of 2017. Digitised by Nick Kuceli. Mixed and Mastered by Mikey Young.
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Some insights on ‘Remember Terry’ from official band representative Stephanie Clothing:
Hello. We’d like to welcome you here, and thank you for attending. Welcome Pescatarian Trish, merciful Metcop, persistent baby lesbian, CEO of Beanbag company, stroppy ex, Dean the Death Doulah, two plainclothes Kerry O'Briens, wellness blogger, rageful teen boy, 'grammar nazi’, Terry’s swing dance club...
Uber Eats guy - 'Who is Terry?'
A Free Hugger with bad intentions? Rough diamond with a secret? Patient or Nurse?
Snog Terry. Marry Terry. Avoid Terry.
“Either his first life, or his last life” says Grammar Nazi. “I’m fed up” says Ersatz Dad.
Knock Knock - Here’s Ken - never takes his shoes off before taking his pants off. Often gets stuck. Heart of gold.
White noise playlist, ‘Best of Ceiling Fans’, ‘Tumble Dryer with Few Clothes in it’, Robbie Williams’ Soviet album. Blue Kentucky Girl. Terry sleeps well.
What’s the wifi? 'Stop Stealing My Wifi Terry’
password ‘oi’
Would you please join hands. We’ve all danced the Terry tete-a-tete.
What’s the word for approaching rain? We mean well Terry. Do you drink to forget?
Welcome to your intervention Terry. Sit down. Take the talking stick.
We invite you to....REMEMBER