Selfish Sons turn The Mourning into sunburnt Brisbane indie-rock release therapy

Selfish Sons’ The Mourning arrives on 14 June with a title that immediately gives the song more weight than the band’s own charmingly casual Bandcamp description. The Brisbane group tag the release around alternative indie rock, indie pop, pop rock and rock, and that puts the track in a very direct lane: guitars, feeling, hook potential and the kind of emotional weather that works best when the band does not over-explain it. Sometimes a single does not need a gigantic myth built around it. The Mourning sounds like a small wound made singable, which is often enough. Selfish Sons call themselves the type of band to get sunburnt, and weirdly, that helps. There is something Australian, open-air and slightly reckless in the idea of sadness delivered with bright skin and guitars turned up. The result is straightforward, human and easy to imagine landing well live.

Source: https://selfishsons.bandcamp.com/