‘These are the kind of songs that make you want to drink scotch late at night looking out into the rain and contemplate life.’ (Purple Sneakers)
I read the above while looking out the back porch at the rain and almost switched from 6:30 am coffee to scotch whiskey… too bad we’re out of scotch and I’m not a vodka in the morning kind of dude…
Jack R Reilly is hot on my favorites list lately. He’s got a knack of reminding me of some of the moody bands I listened to in college without dragging me down that moody road with just the right balance of light, depth. Check out the description of the latest album and if you grew up in (or raised kids in) the last two decades, you’ll probably want to pick up a copy and delve into this one!
Premiering on triple j’s Home & Hosed program on Monday night, Sydney’s Jack R Reilly is back, pulling heart strings with new single ‘Title Dictates Behaviour’. The track has already received a fair bit of love with Triple J’s Declan Byrne calling it ‘Warm and repenting’ .
As an artist, Reilly is a master of melding different sonic and conceptual forces, from Elliot Smith and Mountain Goats to cinema references, in particular films of the late 80’s/early 90’s. From playing in metal, grunge and post-punk bands in his early days’s, the past few years have seen an embrace towards a more ethereal singer-songwriter sound seeing him support the likes of Will Wagner, and Kevin Devine amongst others.
New single ‘Title Dictates Behaviour’ is taken from Reilly’s forthcoming EP Video Tapes due out later this year. The EP sees Reilly using four films – Beetlejuice, Clerks, Labyrinth and Edward Scissor Hands – as the framework for the four tracks on the EP, all of which work through Reilly’s own experiences of love, identity, longing and relationships. ‘Title Dictates Behaviour’ uses the relationship between Dante and Randall from Kevin Smith’s Clerks as its springboard.
