When Alexander Gow was looking for a title for the new Oh Mercy album he reached back to the 80s. The result, an album called ‘Deep Heat’.
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“I was trying to think of what title I would give to an 80’s dub compilation… Deep Heat was the winner”, he said.
‘Deep Heat’ will be the third album for Oh Mercy. Gow says it features an 80s inspired sound. “I wanted to explore the effect of groove in songs that I had written very simply in a ‘singer songwriter’ fashion on the piano. To craft a song with passion and fervor and then see if I could then not take the typical singer songwriter approach to the recording,” he said.
The album was recorded in Portland, Oregon with Burke Reid at The Family Farm studio. “Burke has made my favourite Australian albums of the last five years. Including Jack Ladder’s ‘Hurtsville’ & The Drones ‘Havilah’. He works with bands to make the album the bands want to make. Burke helped me realise my pre-conceived conceptual approach to the album and encouraged me to push past the comfort zones I had recorded music within in the past.”
The album will be released in the USA on the indie label Bad Cop Bad Cop and on EMI in Australia on August 24, 2012.
