Methyl Ethel

Methyl Ethel – Are You Haunted? (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 41:54 minutes | 496 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Art Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Future Classic

Methyl Ethel – the musical project of Western Australian alt-pop eccentrist Jake Webb – unveil their highly anticipated fourth album, Are You Haunted?, for release via their new label home, Future Classic.

The nine-track album will contain previous singles Neon Cheap and Matters as well as new single Proof featuring Stella Donnelly.Across three albums (2015’s Oh Inhuman Spectacle, 2017’s Everything Is Forgotten and 2019’s Triage) and three EPs (2014’s Teeth and Guts, 2020’s Hurts To Laugh), Webb has proven to be a prolific and masterful purveyor of eccentric alt-pop.

Methyl Ethel has attracted two Australian Music Prize nominations, a top 5 Hottest 100 placement with the ARIA Platinum single Ubu, an ARIA Gold single in Twilight Driving and an AIR Best Independent Album award for Everything Is Forgotten.
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Methyl Ethel – Triage (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 37:09 minutes | 777 MB | Genre: Indie Rock, Alternative, Psychedelic
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | ©

With his thirtieth birthday, and the ceremonial cap on three records and three EP’s, Webb felt a sense of closure in the making of Triage. Methyl Ethel has always been a surrealist outfit – a dark and obscured expression of life set to the backdrop of dream pop hooks. But Triage is a more reflective album – one that explores the notion of coming of age, only to reference it for the snapshots and passing memories that it has become. The album was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb, recorded in Jake’s home studio in West Perth and mixed at Mute Studio in London with Marta Salogni.

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Methyl Ethel – Everything Is Forgotten (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 41:23 minutes | 889 MB | Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie Rock, Dream Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © 4AD

Perth band Methyl Ethel’s Oh Human Spectacle was a solid record, and a promising 2016 debut. But it also suggested they had plenty to prove if they were going to make an impression on the increasingly overcrowded area of psychedelic indie pop. Jake Webb showed himself to be a skilled writer of shimmering psych-pop, but his compositions didn’t quite have the bombastic pomp of tracks like Tame Impala’s “Elephant” or MGMT’s “Electric Feel”.

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