Debut album "This Year's Modern"

OUT NOW

on Stranger Than Fiction Records

Limited edition Vinyls + Bundles

Available for Pre-order now!

“This Year’s Modern” is the debut album from Blue Mountains-based troubadour Gavin Bowles. Following on from the single releases of “The Daily Grind” and “Apartmentality”, “This Year’s Modern” could not come at a more poignant time.

Written during a year of urban apartment bliss, financial struggles and on a steady diet of beer and coffee, “This Year’s Modern” encapsulates the many moods, quandaries and adversities one might face as a young, modern ne'er-do-well and takes aim at the frivolousness of life in 2020, but not without having a little fun in the process. Musically the songs bounce between the frenetic energy of opener “Modern Rage”, the slinky groove of “Apartmentality” and the rockabilly swagger of “Slave”. “This Years Modern” is a unique blend of indie rock, rockabilly and power pop styles (driven by backing band ‘The Distractions’) and ponders how to cope in the modern world, always with a guitar lick and smirk in tow. Out now on Stranger Than Fiction Records.