Perth Music

With only one year of existence, Muscles has grown from strength to strength and already has a fan base that many electro-pop artists would be envious of. On September 29th Muscles’ debut album, Guns Babes Lemonade, will be released through Modular Records to the unsuspecting public. The man behind the music talked to Justin Middleton exclusively about music, Myspace and ice cream.

‘The recording of the album was really quite easy as I had most of the songs in my head for years and it was a relief to finally get them recorded.’ explained Muscles. ‘It was also quite a surprise to get the support that I have received from radio. I remember sending One Inch Badge Pin in to various stations and getting it played a few times and then Ice Cream was actually picked up by Triple J without me doing anything. And everything kind of took off from there.’

And took off it did. Ice Cream was on high rotation for four months on Triple J and in the top 10 of most requested songs for three and a half months. With all this exposure Muscles had a variety of record labels after him and after talking to no less than 15 labels worldwide, decided on Modular Records as the perfect vehicle to drive the Muscles message. He said ‘It is extremely hard to describe the music I create or even the genre – Electro-pop, rocking techno, soft-trance. It’s quite difficult for some labels to understand that my music is different so I needed to find one that was willing to go for what I was all about.’

I asked whether Muscles preferred recording songs or playing them live. ‘Well, when I first started to play a lot of my songs live it was still a learning experience for me and it really was quite difficult. Luckily I’ve had the opportunity to play many, many shows now so it has become so much more fun to play in front of an audience. And I love seeing kids singing along to songs that I have written. I played a festival not too long ago early in the day and there was nobody even near the stage I was at. I grabbed a bite to eat and went back to my stage to start my set and I was blown away that hundreds of kids had shown up out of nowhere.’

The new album Guns Babes Lemonade has plenty of dance-along tunes that is certain to appease to many of Muscles’ fans but also could create quite the appetite with songs such as Chocolate, Lemon and Lime, Marshmallow and recent single Ice Cream. ‘I didn’t make songs with food titles on purpose but I guess it does make it a bit more appealing for kids and a bit more fun which I definitely try and make my music.’ And asked what his favourite flavour ice cream actually was, Muscles replied ‘Ummm, vanilla I think. Or rainbow. Rainbow ice cream actually is vanilla ice cream isn’t it? Yeah, let’s just say vanilla rainbow.’

This week Triple J has announced Guns Babes Lemonade as their album of the week and you can hear samples of the entire album on the Muscles Myspace page (www.myspace.com/musclesmusic). The album will be released nationally on September 29th and catch him in Perth at the Parklife festival at 3:00pm along with a variety of artists including Kid Kenobi, M.I.A, MSTRKRFT, Shapeshifter and The Herd on October 1st or with Daft Punk’s NeverEver Land Tour on December 16th.

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