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Majestic Horses
“In the Majestic Horses universe, Brisbane is twinned with Dayton Ohio, circa 1993, when Guided by Voices and The Breeders roamed the land.”
Jenny Valentish (journalist and author of the books Cherry Bomb and Woman of Substances)
Kellie Lloyd is well known for her songwriting prowess in Screamfeeder. In Majestic Horses she steps further into the limelight presenting her songs with pedigree musicians schooled from record collections similarly filled with 90s shoegaze, indie and dream-pop.
Lloyd’s credentials are long and illustrious – 7 albums, 4 Eps and 18 singles with the Brisbane indie-rockers, touring Europe and appearing on four tours of the Big Day Out, guest-programming RAGE, as well as appearing live on ABC TV.
In Majestic Horses Kellie Lloyd brings the experience of this career to bear on a fresh set of songs inspired by social events that surround her. She is ably backed by Kate Wilson (The Holy Soul, formerly The Laurels) and Andrew P Street (The Undecided / Career Girls).
Together this trio deliver a true shoegaze / dream album, Away from the Sun. Sonically, the album is masterfully pulled together true to it’s original vision via the mastering of Bryce Moorehead (Violent Soho) with mixing by Keelan Sanders and Bryce and production ably dealt with by Dave Carter.
Fragile States, 2018
These six songs reflect the variety of circumstances in which they were recorded, with the first three songs based on guitar and the others, including the eight-minute “Tunnel Music”, on piano.
Two songs have been previously released, but are now next to impossible to find. “Scene Of The Crime”, the hookiest and hardest-rocking song here, originally appeared on a Mere Noise Singles Club 7”, with Branko Cosic on drums. “Paradigms” was also a singles club release, for Brisbane institution Tym’s Guitars.
Lloyd describes Fragile States as “basically a collection of things recorded over the last couple of years that were never really going to be anything, until they came together.
“They were just random recording sessions. They all had a purpose, but there was never a thread. The piano songs were recorded as part of a university project at Gasworks; Darek Mudge produced them. They were a prelude to recordings I did with another band, A Savage God, with Alex Gillies, Geordie Stafford and Cam Smith.”
It was when Lloyd was putting together another band, called Majestic Horses, that she assembled the songs to bring to the group. “I decided they sounded so good together, and the Majestic Horses project was slow-moving, so I decided to release this so I could play some solo shows.”
The results are a warm and beautiful collection of songs, by turns eerie, meditative and moody, which fans of Screamfeeder and Big Star’s 3rd alike should love.
Kellie released her second solo album Magnetic North in 2012.
2011 saw her on stage with the likes of Kurt Vile (US) and Sounds Like Sunset, Keep On Dancin’s, Tape/Off, Jeremy Neale (Velociraptor), Kate Jacobson (Texas Tea)
January 2012 Kellie offered the single as digital download for people to choose what to pay with 100% of sales going to a fund to help young girls in developing nations go to school.
Kellie’s fans helped her raise $150 to help bring young girls out of poverty by sending 3 girls to school for a year.
