Hurts To Laugh marks the ongoing output of Methyl Ethel producer and multi-instrumentalist Jake Webb’s restless mind. The new EP is out now! Time and again he’s proven that while there’s no distinction between music and art, psychologically speaking there is a difference between feeling and emotion. One is a conscious response to a set of circumstances, the other is the unconscious conditions of our very being that only occasionally...
Announcing the new EP from Western Australia’s Methyl Ethel. Hurts To Laugh will be released Friday 10th April via Dot Dash / Remote Control. It’s marked with a new single ‘Majestic AF.’ To celebrate the new single and EP Methyl Ethel will be supporting Peter, Bjorn & John on their American tour dates throughout March and April. On return to Australia, Methyl Ethel will tour in solo mode at intimate...
Saddle Creek’s newest signing Ada Lea has announced her debut album what we say in private will be released Friday 19th July. Premiered via The Fader, the Montreal-based artist has shared the video for new single ‘mercury‘. The Montreal, Quebec-based Alexandra Levy — who records and performs as Ada Lea — is also a painter and visual artist, and traces of her many creative abilities run throughout what we say in private. Levy explores the...
Methyl Ethel announce their third album Triage, released on 15th February 2019. Following on from instant classic ‘Scream Whole’, they have shared new single ‘Real Tight’ along with the official video directed by Matt Sav. Watch below! Triage was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb. The album was recorded in Jake’s home studio in West Perth and mixed at Mute Studio in London with Marta Salogni. With his 30th birthday,...
Methyl Ethel share brand new single ‘Scream Whole’, it’s the first new music from the Perth band since their second record Everything Is Forgotten was released in March 2017. Listen below! ‘Scream Whole’ is a nimble art-rock cut, which Jake Webb describes as, “That cold sweat. That swollen throat. That sick feeling bubbling up from your guts. When midday movies dredge suppressed memories that scream for closure. What to do?”...
Methyl Ethel’s ‘Ubu’ is now ARIA Accredited Gold. The single was released on the band’s second record Everything Is Forgotten and placed at #4 in triple j’s Hottest 100 in 2017. Earlier today ‘Ubu’ was featured on triple j Mornings segment Inspired where Jake Webb, the brainchild of Methyl Ethel, broke down the influences, meanings and writing process behind the song. Listen back to the segment here. Methyl Ethel, made up of...
Methyl Ethel share the exciting news of earning multiple prizes for the WAM Awards. After scoring 7 nominations, Methyl Ethel take home Best Album, Best Pop Act and Best Male Vocalist! WAMFest continues through the weekend. Head to the WAM website for more information, and see the full list of WAM Award winners here: http://wam.org.au/ Methyl Ethel’s latest album Everything Is Forgotten has also been nominated for Australian Album Of The Year, alongside their video for ‘Ubu’ as...
Methyl Ethel have announced an Australian tour kicking off this November in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide. Full tour details and ticket links below! Recently, Methyl Ethel were invited by Huw Stephens to record a BBC Radio 1 session at the Maida Vale studios. Listen back to the live renditions of ‘Drink Wine’, ‘Ubu’, ‘No. 28’, ‘Groundswell’ and ‘L’Heure des Sorcières’ via the BBC iPlayer. In addtion, BBC 6Music saw...
Methyl Ethel share a new video for ‘Drink Wine’, directed by Paxi (behind the surrealism-flavoured visuals for ‘Ubu’) and filmed in Sydney, Australia. The new single opens their second studio album, Everything Is Forgotten, out now. Watch the video below. The band are currently in the middle of a run of European dates with fellow Perth band POND. After appearances at Boardmasters, Lowlands and Green Man festivals, Methyl Ethel will head to North...
That exciting time has come around again, and it’s the 10th Annual Record Store Day tomorrow, Saturday 22nd April! There’s a bunch of great special events, acts, prizes, and all round celebrations going about town – almost every capital city, along with many in regional towns. In fact, it’s the highest ever number of indie record stores in Australia announcing their participation yet! You can find all the record stores near you that...
Remote Control Records, triple j, Dot Dash and Village Sounds are excited to announce the Australian album tour for Methyl Ethel. Spanning the month of May, the album tour will showcase brand new music from forthcoming record Everything Is Forgotten which will be released on Friday 3rd March via Dot Dash / Remote Control. See the full tour dates and ticket info below. To mark today’s announcement, the band have shared a new album track ‘L’Heure des...
Methyl Ethel have announced their new album Everything Is Forgotten, to be released Friday 3rd March via Dot Dash / Remote Control Records. The band have also shared new single ‘Ubu’, a frenetic pop song inspired by Alfred Jarre’s surrealist play Ubu Roi. A self-portrait of self-flagellation and guilt, its companion video, directed by Paxi, takes some of its absurdist cues from Jarre. Watch it below. Due to overwhelming demand a handful of...
Methyl Ethel have shared their first new music in eighteen months – the striking new single ‘No. 28’ was world premiered last night on triple j’s Good Nights. Co-produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals), in collaboration with the Perth trio’s frontman Jake Webb it is accompanied by a touching and evocative visual, plus details of tour dates for 2017, as seen below. Written and recorded by Webb, ‘No. 28’...
After a year that has seen them tour the world extensively, including performances at Roskilde, Latitude, End Of The Road, Outside Lands, Levitation Chicago, Laneway, Splendour in the Grass, SXSW, Great Escape and a host of sold-out headline shows, Methyl Ethel are showing no sign of slowing down and today announce new live dates across Australia, United Kingdom, Europe, United States and Canada beginning February 2017. Australian tour dates are...
To celebrate, the band have launched a video for their hit single ‘Twilight Driving’, a haunting living shrine to the members of the band captured in grainy VHS-style stop motion. Catch the band play Splendour In The Grass and North West Festival this winter. Borne out of the remote fringes of Perth, Western Australia, linchpin Jake Webb started Methyl Ethel in 2013 as a way of getting his bedroom recordings out in...
Yes! We are super excited that a heap of our friends are playing Splendour In The Grass including Sigur Ros (only Aus show), Courtney Barnett, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Lapsley, Methyl Ethel, Sui Zhen & Banoffee! The full line up and ticket details can be found here.
