Last Dinosaurs

The long awaited sophomore release of Wellness by Last Dinosaurs has finally arrived, and so far has been satiating the ravenous appetite of their fans who had high expectations following the critically acclaimed debut album In A Million Years.

After so much success with their debut album, Last Dinosaurs could have been forgiven for settling in and simply refining their sound, but as Sean Caskey explained the band really wanted to “explore a bunch more styles and different sounds after doing the first album.”

Working with their new producer Scott Horscroft – who has previously worked with Silverchair, The Presets and Empire Of The Sun – was fundamental in allowing Last Dinosaurs explore this new direction and evolution of their sound. “Scott had a very different production style to our last producer, previously we would disassemble the songs to nothing then reassemble them into a pop structure, whereas Scott just helped us fine tune our songs by shortening different bits here and there. He just wanted to make them sound good and let us just play the songs,” said Caskey

Since Wellness’ release online the record has racked up some really impressive streaming numbers, which is a prime example of the new environment that musicians need to operate in today. Gone are the days of physical record stores selling CD’s, now everyone is streaming their music through services like Soundcloud, Pandora or Spotify – which Caskey believes has both its positive and negative impacts. From Caskey’s perspective, streaming “sucks because it kills sales, but at the same time it’s great because it’s so much easier and more accessible for people to find new music locally and internationally, because it’s so much easier to now it has sort of open one door while another [closes].”

With the album out now, and the band currently in the midst of their tour supporting its release, the band is “extremely excited” for every show because “we haven’t been able to play new songs for three years and now we feel like we’re allowed to showcase all the new stuff.” For the tour the the guys have also decided to learn an original medley cover featuring songs from Michael Jackson and Jamiroquai, because “we like to play complicated things and challenge ourselves performing live. In general I think we’ve really stepped up the live show performance.” (JA)

Oct 9, The Enmore, 118-132 Enmore Rd, Newtown. $40.73+b.f. Tickets & Info: enmoretheatre.com.au