{"product_id":"full-flower-moon-band-diesel-forever-anniversary-edition-copy","title":"Full Flower Moon Band - MEGAFLOWER - BLACK VINYL LP","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eMegaflower\u003c\/em\u003e finds Full Flower Moon Band in full bloom: wild, expansive and impossible to pin down. It’s a record that feels both grounded and cosmic, where fuzzed-out guitars, hypnotic grooves and a kind of beautiful unruliness keep pushing the songs somewhere bigger than themselves. There’s real heat in it, but also real atmosphere - the sense of a band stretching toward something luminous, strange and alive. \u003cem\u003eMegaflower\u003c\/em\u003e doesn’t just sound like growth; it sounds like transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKate Dillon knows exactly what she's doing. The frontwoman, figurehead and chief songwriter of Brisbane rock outfit Full Flower Moon Band – better known as simply 'Babyshakes' when she steps to the mic – is all about subverting expectations and offering a new reality in its stead. So it goes with FFMB's third studio album \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMegaflower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. On paper, an allusion to the megaflora – particularly giant plants, suggests ‘everything that's come before, to the nth degree’… or so you'd think.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“When you think about Full Flower going 'mega', I don't want you to think about us going harder and heavier,” Dillon explains. “I want you to think about us going in every direction. Acts like the Arctic Monkeys and David Bowie were able to define careers that went genre-less at as many intersections as they could. I want to have permission to do that as an Australian artist, and not get pigeon-holed. My mega is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eevery\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ething instead of one thing. I'm not saying that I'm doing it perfectly yet, but I am saying I will be moving in places that I want to, and we refuse to be just a heavy-rock band. That's our mega.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDillon, who also produced it, recorded \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMegaflower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e with the full five-piece, triple-guitar line-up that audiences have grown accustomed to over the last two years of must-see live shows. Mixing, meanwhile, was handled by the award-winning Tony Buchen (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSmashing Pumpkins, Montaigne\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) – a connection Dillon has described as “fate providing a true mentor”. What lies therein is the most diverse sonic array under the Full Flower umbrella to date.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Most songs went through a metamorphosis, which I've never really done on previous albums,” says Dillon. “It was a concerted effort to write more – like, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewrite, write\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. I could have easily not done that, and just have everything on the album be what-you-see-is-what-you-get. The conclusion that I came to is that it ultimately just wouldn't have been a challenge.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis subversion of expectations even extends to the album cover, which sees Dillon posed beside a giant construction with familial ties. “My father, who's a metal worker, made a huge metal monolith that stood 2.6 metres high,” she explains. “Me standing next to it looks very meaningful; like I'm really saying something deep. 'She's really going there! She's really doing it!' Then, at every turn of the record, I'm like, 'Sike! Gotcha! Think again!' I'm not just standing on the shoulders of giants. Nah, dude: I'm \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeverywhere\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSo, aside from expecting the unexpected, what does Dillon want from listeners of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMegaflower\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e? “I would hope that ideally, people put this on and hit a sense of pleasurable listening. Every single song feels like it's there for a reason. I hope they feel liberated listening to it, because we go everywhere together. I hope people enjoy the generosity of that emotion and pick up on the fearlessness of it, and get a sense of fearlessness themselves – because that's what it took.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFull Flower Moon Band is Babyshakes Dillon vocals + guitar, Marli Smales bass + bvs, Luke Hanson drums, Christian Driscoll \u0026amp; Caleb Widener guitars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e140GRAM BLACK VINYL.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTracklisting:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1.        \u003c\/span\u003eSuper Like Me\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e2.        \u003c\/span\u003eIllegal Things\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e3.        \u003c\/span\u003eCowboy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e4.        \u003c\/span\u003eDevil\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e5.        \u003c\/span\u003eBaby\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e6.        \u003c\/span\u003eWest Side\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e7.        \u003c\/span\u003eEnemy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e8.        \u003c\/span\u003eMan Hands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e9.        \u003c\/span\u003eAlpha\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e10.  \u003c\/span\u003eCome and Be\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e11.  \u003c\/span\u003eKiss Him Goodbye\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Impressed Recordings x Full Flower Moon Band","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54569549332798,"sku":"IMP340","price":54.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8676\/5630\/files\/FULLFLOWERMOONBANDMEGAFLOWERVINYLIMPRESSED.png?v=1791348251","url":"https:\/\/impressedrecordings.com\/products\/full-flower-moon-band-diesel-forever-anniversary-edition-copy","provider":"Impressed Recordings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}