Melbourne power-pop-rock machine THE JIMMY C has a new video which he's unveiling courtesy of Vive Le Rock!
'The Back Roads to Ruin' is taken from Refreshing, the forthcoming new album from the prolific DIY multi-instrumentalist, otherwise known as Jamie Coghill, drummer with garage-pop quartet Lava Fangs and probably the closest thing Australia has to a Bevis Frond.
Written, played, sung, recorded, mixed and mastered by Coghill, he says of the song, "For all intents and purposes this song is brand new and unheard, but as with all the songs on the upcoming Refreshing album by The Jimmy C, this song was written 15 to 20 years ago - in this case specifically, 2008. The original low-fi recording was released on the CD album Glamour & Fame in 2009.
"The concept of the new album is to take the best songs from my formative years and present them anew with the benefit of over a decade of experience and musicianship and without the restrictions of recording to 4-track cassette tape and primitive mid-nineties recording software," he continues. "'The Back Roads To Ruin' is a driving, heavy rock song written during a period when I was playing drums with The Devilrock Four. It’s about growing up in a dead end country town amongst closed minded people and the unacknowledged misery caused by such isolation and bigotry which often leads to suicide. Not a cheerful subject but it inspired a moody and heavy (yet melodic and somehow uplifting) rock song that I’m proud to have written and felt was worthy of refreshing with a more up to date recording."
Released through Cheersquad, 'The Back Roads To Ruin' is available to download here.