Tex Perkins & The Dark Horses

This week Tex Perkins and his band The Dark Horses bring their trilogy of albums full circle with the release of Tunnel At The End Of The Light on Friday.

Over the last five years while writing and recording these albums Tex believes they have “absolutely” changed and evolved through the lessons learned along the way. When reminiscing about their growth Tex described the first album in the trilogy as “kind of just a collection of songs that we had accumulated” then the next was produced as somewhat of an “experiment” to see if they could follow up quickly. The new album though has been much more considered and thought out in its development, even heading back and tackling tracks they “couldn’t get right” last time around, to create the “most assured and musically developed album” to date.

The band only spent “ten or eleven” days together in the studio from the start of the recording period in November of last year until the end of February this year. Despite this Tex said “all the time in between was fully utilised…I was always thinking about the songs and developing them away from the studio.”

To help celebrate the release Tex and the band will hit the road again for tour dates, arriving in Sydney this weekend. Then following this all of the members will head their separate ways for other projects because “You’ve got to have your finger in more than one pie to be a working musician these day” said Tex.

Jul 19, Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford St, Darlinghurst, $30+b.f, Tickets & Info: oxfordartfactory.com