Their first two EPs saw Sleepy Jackson mysteriously tagged as alt-country; but this, their fantastic debut album, whisks country rock on a magical mystery tour. Using beautifully crafted pop as a starting point, the band visits everything from Velvet Underground to death rockers the Only Ones and, most curiously, post-new wave outfits such as the Psychedelic Furs. The unlikely combinations work because of frontman Luke Steele; whether he's fusing George Harrison with the Flaming Lips or The Church and Aval...   [ read more ]

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Spaced-out pop maestro; blue-eyeliner wearing rocknroll genius; Australia's answer to Brian Wilson - Luke Steele - aka The Sleepy Jackson - has already been called all these things and more. No wonder he lives in the most isolated city on Earth. Anywhere else, with all these critical garlands, he could end up suffocating. I like the peace and quiet which comes with living in Perth laughs Luke down a late night phone line. It suits me. Theres lots of space, theres no one around. I can walk down the main roa...   [ read more ]

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Unlike the Sleepy Jackson's dazzling but scattered debut album, Lovers, which offered so many different sounds and ideas that it threatened to cross the fine line between eclectic and schizophrenic, Luke Steele and company's second album, Personality, focuses the band's ambitions -- to an extent. On Personality, Steele replaces Lovers' wide-ranging musical flights of fancy with a sound that concentrates on his devotion to George Harrison's Technicolor, spiritual pop (which is kin...   [ read more ]

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