After the almost immediate success of their first single 'Cable Car', Melbourne five-piece murmurmur (pronounced mer-mer-mer) have followed up with their new track 'Marmalade'.
For the band's frontman and songwriter Will Fletcher, 'Marmalade' was his attempt at writing a love song “with all the cheddar”.
“I never write songs about relationships – I don’t do it, I never have, it just doesn't interest me at all,” Will says.
“This is the first time I've ever done it and it's kind of a bit of a weird one; it's about a relationship I've been in for some time and the symbolism I've used in the lyrics I would describe as very cheesy. It's a major-sounding song, so that adds to the fact it feels cheesy to me.”
'Marmalade' has been lifted from murmurmur's self-titled debut EP (out 19 October), which has been produced by Holy Holy's Oscar Dawson, and Will says he can't wait to show off their first body of work.
“It's one of those things: you record it and feel great about it, then you kind of get to a point where you want to get away from it, so I'm looking forward to taking a step back, putting it out and moving onto the next thing,” he says.
“I've been trying to make bands for years and this is the first band I've successfully created that's actually put out any music, so it's a new thing for me. It's maybe not an artistic thing I wanted to put across, but it's more about the group of players who are all very good at what they do and it's more about the live show than the recorded stuff for me.
“The live show is our strength; the recorded stuff I'm very happy with but until people see us live they don't really understand what the band is all about.”
With their music garnering early acclaim from audiences and tastemakers, Will says the band is highly focused on the launch shows for the EP, which will be some of their biggest shows yet. “We're working hard rehearsing and trying to get the set together, and a few surprises in there maybe.
“We're very excited and we haven't played a set longer than half an hour yet, so we're looking forward to playing for closer to an hour.”
Beyond the EP's release, Will says he's keen on maintaining the momentum murmurmur have already gained and will be back in the studio in coming months to work on a follow-up release. “We're going back into the studio in a few months and hopefully have something out at the end of the year or early next year,” he says.
“The rest of the year, so far that's all we've got planned; I don't think we're going to be doing anything else; there might be a few small things but I can't imagine there will be much. We've had a pretty slow start; we've been sitting on this EP for some time and I feel like we've been waiting to play live shows, but we've only just started.”
