Suburban Cinema by The Model School

* LIMITED CD & CASSETTE EDITIONS AVAILABLE MID NOVEMBER *

Performed and produced entirely at home in Sydney's Blue Mountains by Brendan Wixted in the fashion of his earliest recordings, Suburban Cinema has one eye on the ‘burbs and the other on the bright lights. Home truths are delivered directly from the back of the bus all the way through to the Friday night high school dance. Each track is cloaked in the melody and minor chords that Wixted has spent a lifetime working on - from his first 4 track cassette recorder at age 18, across 3 critically acclaimed albums and into the digital world of 2018.

Suburban Cinema is more than just an exercise in nostalgia - it's about how you get back to where you’re from and what you find - how you relate to the past and make it part of your future. Do you take the long way home and ultimately feel like nothing's changed ? Or do you move forward knowing where you came from and work out who you are ? Is that even possible ? Across 10 tracks the album tries to answer these questions, using formative personal & musical touchstones as a vivid lyrical backdrop.

But don’t be fooled into thinking it’s all smooth sailing. You might put your favourite mixtape on when driving back to your suburban home town - but that won’t stop the dread, the fear, the joy, the loss, the wave of every feeling you’ve ever had overwhelming you by the time you get back into your old neighbourhood.

“The songs on this album were recorded between about 2015 and 2018 and much agonizing went into making the final 34 minutes that make up the record. Being too close to the project, recording & playing it all, i think is the reason this album took as long as it did. At times i had to take a step back and decide if i was giving too much away - was this record too personal? Or maybe it wasn’t going far enough. I think eventually i got what i was aiming for - a love letter to home towns, formative years, pop music, suburban lawns, video games that never load, first jobs, first cars - and everything else left in between.” - Brendan Wixted.

Suburban Cinema is officially released October 19, 2018.

Tracklist

1.	Drive All Over This Town	3:14

2.	Young Hearts	3:38

3.	Well Executed Rock & Roll	3:14

4.	Around The World	2:42

5.	Long Way Home	5:20

6.	Wrong Side Of Leavin'	2:20

7.	Fallin' Off The Grid	3:06

8.	Suburban Cinema	2:20

9.	Back To That Feelin'	4:10

10.	Brightest Diamonds	3:16

Credits

released October 19, 2018

Written, Performed & Produced by Brendan Wixted at home in the Blue Mountains of Sydney, Australia.
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music, New York.
Art Direction: Geoff Caesar & Brendan Wixted
All Songs by Brendan Wixted
c.Packaged Light 2018

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