Sunfruits image (left) by Chelsea Sienna // Noodle House image (right) by Haydon Fanning 

Melbourne and Sydney connect on the psychedelic highway.

Once again we can rely on Sydney’s Third Eye Stimuli to keep the Australian freak flag flying, with the indie label today releasing a split 7-inch, featuring two of their latest discoveries. Here, Melbourne swingers Sunfruits have teamed up with local vintage-flavoured crooners Noodle house to produce vinyl that will undoubtedly be satisfying the ears of indie-psych fans up and down the coast.

Kicking off with the split with their deliciously up-tempo, modulation-heavy track ‘All I Want’, Sunfruits set the tone nicely for our journey, before their melodically fruitful (he he) piano interlude ‘Evergreen’ winds down Side A. Noodle House’s ‘One Day (I’ll See)’ keeps the 60s vibes going with rich harmonies and some tidy Harrison-esque guitar work ahead of their introspective piano pocket ballad ‘Old Age’.

It’s one of those releases that you know will sound even nicer with the warm crackle of vinyl, and you can order it via Third Eye Stimuli Bandcamp right here. They’ll also be playing a run of launch shows, kicking off this weekend at Rathdowne Records in Northcote (info here), before hitting Old Bar on Saturday (info here), with Sydney and Wollongong the following weekend.

For now though, check out what the bands themselves had to say about the tracks below:

Sunfruits (Winnie McQuinn)

‘All I Want’:  

The song is about society’s addiction to consumerism and disregard for the consequences of over-consuming. Sustainability and being conscious of consuming is definitely a big thing for the band and we want to try and use our music and sound to promote that in interesting ways.

We recorded this in Genes hot tin shed in early january this year, I think the basic tracks were done in like 2 takes from memory? Testament to Acacia (bass) and Gene’s (drums) ability to lock it down! We spent a bit of time on overdubs especially percussion… there’s woodblock, clicks, tambo, cowbell, hand claps. A few people think that little wobbly guitar riff after the first chorus is a synth but its just two guitars an octave apart doing the same thing – all about that magic chorus effect.

‘Evergreen’

You could say this song is an ode to Noodle House and all things 70s like Drugdealer and Weyes Blood. Gene really spearheaded this one, we had to write a tune that was max 1 minute long for the 7″, as All I want is 4 mins long. We didn’t have any tunes that short so we had a go at writing some nice piano chords and vocal harmonies. We kinda rushed this one, but ultimately pretty happy with it as a nice B side. If you listen closely, there’s an accidental conga hit somewhere in there haha.

Noodle House (Jack Kinder)

‘One Day (I’ll See)’

One day was one of the first songs we really wrote together as a band, it wouldn’t be the song it is without all of the little touches everyone added. And it’s also probably the song that has taken us the longest to record, so far! Lou and I spent at least an hour and a half on the solo alone. But it’s still the song that has been the most fun to work on. As for the lyrical content, there’s just something I really like about a simple love song. ‘One Day’ is about a fictional, dysfunctional relationship and the subsequent end to that relationship. You may not feel it at the time, but ultimately you know it’s for the best.

‘Old Age’

I wrote ‘Old Age’ over a year ago and it was originally intended to be a full length song with a couple of verses and what not, until I bought a new keyboard and started working on the harmonies. I had it reserved as bookend to a release of some sort and when we started talking about the 7” and having two tracks, it felt fitting to put this on the end of the record.

The lyrics were meant to be a bit tongue in cheek at first, until I really fleshed it out and came up with something more sincere and now it feels kind of 50/50. The first line of the chorus is “would you love me still, if you’re not in my will” – so I’m not taking it too seriously. It’s a bit of an ode to ‘When I’m Sixty Four’ by this really obscure band called “The Beatles” haha.