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Title: Split Seconds
Format: CD EP
Release Date: 11 March, 2011

Track Listing:
1. Bed Down
2. Paper Boy
3. With All Yr Might
4. Compasses
5. What A Week
6. Elizabeth

Biography

You’ve awakened on the lawn with a sprinkler digging into your back. With pockets full of bottle caps, you squint through a hole in the blanket you’ve somehow wound up inside. Despite a pizza-box pillow, sunburn and grass stains, life has never been better. What a night.

Such is the breezy, sun-kissed, folk-pop world of ‘Bed Down’, the latest single from emerging Perth band Split Seconds.

Initially formed as an outlet for well-known Perth songsmith Sean Pollard (New Rules For Boats) to ply his solo tunes, Split Seconds have solidified into one of the city’s most talked about bands, who although being but a year old, have already chalked up supports with a veritable who’s who of East Coast indie rock heavy hitters including Cloud Control, Richard In Your Mind, Wagons, Sally Seltmann, Little Red and Dan Kelly, as well as coveted slots at the Southbound and In The Pines festivals.

The band’s early success has been no-doubt aided by the experienced cast of all-singing and all-instrument swapping Perth musicians that bring Pollard’s songs to life with their spacious and understated instrumentation. Guitarist Todd Pickett (Abbe May And The Rockin’ Pneumonia) is Split Seconds’ freshest addition, replacing Nat Carson of The Bank Holidays. Pickett joins Rhys Davies (Faith In Plastics), Benjamin Golby (New Rules For Boats) and drummer James Trewenack (Dyslexic Fish, The Jackards) in creating the effervescent harmonies that have become a trademark of the band’s live show – energising each song like a fizzing morning Berocca.

Pollard first began penning songs under the Split Seconds moniker whilst working a less-than salubrious job in London mental hospital The Priory. Buoyed by a steady supply of Go Betweens, Triffids, Ned Collette and Augie March records, the songwriter set about exploring a nostalgia for home – the bittersweet, romantic notions known so well to Australians living abroad. As hinted at by jangly first single and local radio favourite Paperboy, Pollard has the ability to write timeless and truly affecting Australian pop songs of the highest order.

Split Second’s debut EP (set for a 2011 release), was tracked at Cazfair Studios in Perth with producers Steve Bond (The Panics, Snowman, The Bank Holidays) and mixed in London with respected Australian producer Aaron Cupples, best known for his work The Drones and Dan Kelly.

Bed Dow may begin with the melodic clink of half-empty bottles, but like the sentiment of the track itself – and with a national tour in the works for 2011 – the future for Split Second is undoubtedly bright.

Links

Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/splitsecondss

Contacts

Shiny Rep: Steven Stavrakis
Management: Jacob Snell
Label: Self Released Independent