Where: The Merri Creek Tavern
✉ 111 High StNorthcote
3070
Australia
Melbourne
What: Cornflake Sunset @ The Merri Creek Tavern
When:
https://mckimmie.bandcamp.com/
https://www.cornflakesunset.com/
How Much:
www.bandsintown.com InStockNorthcote
3070
Australia
Who: Cornflake Sunset
Folk Rock
Cornflake Sunset is the singer-songwriter moniker of acclaimed Australian experimental poet and writer Luke Beesley. Double Portrait is his first album.
Cornflake Sunset songs are a sort of rusty literary folk-rock—absurd, intertextual, visual. On Double Portrait, Luke is joined by multi-award-winning avant-jazz double bassist, Helen Svoboda, percussionist Maria Moles and saxophonist Thomas Coleman Bell.
Luke has played all over Melbourne for over a decade, with artists such as Ryan Downey, Sarah Mary Chadwick, Ainslie Wills and Grand Salvo (sometimes as New Archer, sometimes as Cornflake Sunset) but the writing of books always distracted him from recording songs. Luke is the author of four highly regarded books published by Giramondo: In the Photograph, Aqua Spinach, Jam Sticky Vision and New Works on Paper.
Critics have described his writing as ‘hypervivid epiphanies’, ‘language made deliciously strange’ and ‘surreal paths of flight, shaping into strange and self-referential swirls, leaving you disoriented but transformed’.
The same could be said of these strange songs that have the lyrical precision of the Silver Jews or Leonard Cohen, the wackiness of Stephen Malkmus’ Pavement, the minimalist instrumentation of Bill Callahan or Aldous Harding, sung in a voice that sits somewhere between Neil Young, Loudon Wainwright III, Devendra Banhart and Magnolia Electric Co.’s Jason Molina.