Big Scary member announces new label Hotel Motel Records

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Today one half of Big Scary unveils a new musical project, but it’s not another band, it’s another record label. Jo Syme already runs Pieater Records with band mate Tom Iansek, and band manager Tom Fraser, housing the likes of Airling and Christopher Port, along with Big Scary themselves. But now Syme has birthed off-shoot label Hotel Motel Records.

So, why the second label? Says Syme “I had an incredibly inspiring musical year in 2016. Not so much with my own writing, but with what my friends around me were making. Where Pieater’s involvement is very in-depth and career-focused, I wanted a platform where I could say ‘OK, this music is incredible and it’s not right for Pieater, but I want to give it the best shot possible of being heard’. So, I guess it’s meant to be an easier decision to make to work with someone: if it’s recorded, and it’s great; and I have the time, then I can help.”

Teaming up with Inertia Music, the first two tracks are available today, and it will quickly be obvious that there’s no theme to the label’s genre, other than that Jo loves it.

Orlean is the vocal and electronic music project of Terry Mann and Bella Li. Debut track “Faster” displays controlled growth and a detached beat, under vocals laced with a sense of anxiety. Says Mann: “Like anxiety, ‘Faster’ is not happy or sad. It’s also not frantic and hectic like a panic attack. It’s an ongoing pressure, a weight, a confusion, a lack of control, an unknown.”

Listen to Faster here.

Until recently, Tasmanian band Quivers only existed on handmade cassettes posted out from the end of the world. It’s a lyrical, gutter-pop project that began with Sam J Nicholson writing for catharsis after losing his brother in a free-diving accident. New song “Ridin’ on the Hearses” is an endless road-trip of a song. It’s about trying to carve broken love or loss into something else: "What is love but a series of curses? In the end it’s always worth it – we’ll go riding on the hearses until we die."

 Listen to Ridin On The Hearses here.