The Franklin Electric new album and Australian tour
After slaying audiences across Australia earlier this year supporting Holy Holy, Canadian hitmakers The Franklin Electric are emerging from the studio with an amazing album for 2017 Blue Ceilings and will celebrate its Australian release on the 6th January with another visit to Australia, this time supporting fellow countrymen Half Moon Run and Victorian buzz band Woodlock.
The new single I Know the Feeling builds on the Montreal act’s breakthrough This Is How I Let You Down and takes things to the next level, creating a soundscape that’s both bold and vulnerable, brimming with emotion yet with a driving beat and undeniable melody that will collect a whole new audience to their already substantial global following.
The act’s driving force Jon Matte launched the act into the world after signing with Indica Records in 2014. An Irish Catholic church choir upbringing gave way to studies in jazz, weaving both into a love of everything from hiphop to Elton John and the ‘70s songwriting titans. Legendary label Verve Records called Matte in to remix a Nina Simone record and hanging with and learning from great engineers, he realized he could apply all that off-camera skill to his own songwriting.
“I come from a singer-songwriter-producer mindset,” Matte says, adding that he wanted to give that shape and form, “to bring humans on board, and make it all translate live.”
Enter the rest of The Franklin Electric; Martin Desrosby, Kevin Warren, Ken Pressé and other players, who help fill out the palate of colours that Matte paints with, weaving a “shape-shifting” unit, and sound.
After entering and winning an international Nashville songwriting competition over 8000 other bands, opening slots would follow: Ben Howard, Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, City & Colour, Half Moon Run. "Bonds are built, and when you tour, it all fuses together.” Matte says. The driving force of a singer-songwriter becomes a brotherhood of the road. Having found their tribe, they’d spend 2015 playing over 180 shows from Canada to Australia – three tours of Europe alone – with reviews ecstatic across the board.
Critics and fans were responding to Matte’s voice and his intuitive, compelling songwriting, but also to the singular, standout sound of an instrument still uncommon in pop: the trumpet. “Yeah, the horn’s always going to be a secret weapon,” Matte says, smiling. “Something I can pull out and people go ‘What the fuck’? To me it’s always been an anthemic instrument – it’s a battle call.”
The Franklin Electric steps up to the next level with Blue Ceilings, music that casts a spell, on a human scale. A mature, fully-formed sound that embraces the riddles of life and love. It is the human element. The spark. The drive is bigger than ever.
Catch The Franklin Electric as they weave their way across Australia (twice!) throughth January and February.
Wed 11th Jan - Brisbane, The Triffid - with Half Moon Run
Thu 12th Jan - Melbourne, The Corner Hotel - with Half Moon Run
Sat 14th Jan - Sydney, The Metro - with Half Moon Run
Fri 20th Jan - Adelaide, Jive Bar - with Woodstock
Sat 21st Jan - Melbourne, Howler - with Woodstock
Sun 22nd Jan - Hawthorne, Sub - with Woodstock
Fri 27th Jan - Byron Bay, Beach Hotel - with Woodstock
Sat 28th Jan - Brisbane, Woolly Mammoth - with Woodstock
Thu 2nd Feb - Cronulla, Brass Monkey - with Woodstock
Fri 3rd Feb - Sydney, Northcote Social Club - with Woodstock
Sat 4th Feb - Newcastle, Small Ballroom - with Woodstock
Sun 5th Feb - Wollongong, Rad Bar - with Woodstock (Matinee Show)
Sun 5th Feb - Wollongong, Rad Bar - with Woodstock (18+ Evening Show)
Fri 10th Feb - Margaret River, Settlers Tavern - with Woodstock
The new single I Know the Feeling builds on the Montreal act’s breakthrough This Is How I Let You Down and takes things to the next level, creating a soundscape that’s both bold and vulnerable, brimming with emotion yet with a driving beat and undeniable melody that will collect a whole new audience to their already substantial global following.
The act’s driving force Jon Matte launched the act into the world after signing with Indica Records in 2014. An Irish Catholic church choir upbringing gave way to studies in jazz, weaving both into a love of everything from hiphop to Elton John and the ‘70s songwriting titans. Legendary label Verve Records called Matte in to remix a Nina Simone record and hanging with and learning from great engineers, he realized he could apply all that off-camera skill to his own songwriting.
“I come from a singer-songwriter-producer mindset,” Matte says, adding that he wanted to give that shape and form, “to bring humans on board, and make it all translate live.”
Enter the rest of The Franklin Electric; Martin Desrosby, Kevin Warren, Ken Pressé and other players, who help fill out the palate of colours that Matte paints with, weaving a “shape-shifting” unit, and sound.
After entering and winning an international Nashville songwriting competition over 8000 other bands, opening slots would follow: Ben Howard, Mumford and Sons, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes, City & Colour, Half Moon Run. "Bonds are built, and when you tour, it all fuses together.” Matte says. The driving force of a singer-songwriter becomes a brotherhood of the road. Having found their tribe, they’d spend 2015 playing over 180 shows from Canada to Australia – three tours of Europe alone – with reviews ecstatic across the board.
Critics and fans were responding to Matte’s voice and his intuitive, compelling songwriting, but also to the singular, standout sound of an instrument still uncommon in pop: the trumpet. “Yeah, the horn’s always going to be a secret weapon,” Matte says, smiling. “Something I can pull out and people go ‘What the fuck’? To me it’s always been an anthemic instrument – it’s a battle call.”
The Franklin Electric steps up to the next level with Blue Ceilings, music that casts a spell, on a human scale. A mature, fully-formed sound that embraces the riddles of life and love. It is the human element. The spark. The drive is bigger than ever.
Catch The Franklin Electric as they weave their way across Australia (twice!) throughth January and February.
Wed 11th Jan - Brisbane, The Triffid - with Half Moon Run
Thu 12th Jan - Melbourne, The Corner Hotel - with Half Moon Run
Sat 14th Jan - Sydney, The Metro - with Half Moon Run
Fri 20th Jan - Adelaide, Jive Bar - with Woodstock
Sat 21st Jan - Melbourne, Howler - with Woodstock
Sun 22nd Jan - Hawthorne, Sub - with Woodstock
Fri 27th Jan - Byron Bay, Beach Hotel - with Woodstock
Sat 28th Jan - Brisbane, Woolly Mammoth - with Woodstock
Thu 2nd Feb - Cronulla, Brass Monkey - with Woodstock
Fri 3rd Feb - Sydney, Northcote Social Club - with Woodstock
Sat 4th Feb - Newcastle, Small Ballroom - with Woodstock
Sun 5th Feb - Wollongong, Rad Bar - with Woodstock (Matinee Show)
Sun 5th Feb - Wollongong, Rad Bar - with Woodstock (18+ Evening Show)
Fri 10th Feb - Margaret River, Settlers Tavern - with Woodstock