Harvey Sutherland- Debt
'Debt' is a new album by Harvey Sutherland about the cost of doing business in the meme economy. In his first LP since his 2022 debut 'Boy', the Australian artist reduces his fusiony disco repertoire to ten microhoused funk essentials. This is minimalism not so much as aesthetic conceit than as a pressurized container, shaken in the Escherised time and space unique to our overdriven, red-lining present. The album's title nods to the financial contortions necessary to strive/survive/thrive as an independent artist. But 'Debt' is better understood as the ledger of what we owe, and to whom, in the course of a creative life. What's the ROI on being an artist, a son, a friend, a partner, a father? Have we been worth our loved ones' own investments? If that sounds transactional, this is merely the lingua franca of our overwhelmingly digital culture, a grifter's bazaar in which Bob Dylan tunes up over Salt Bae, and Wordsworth's pitch is opposite the Rizzler. 'Debt' came to life when Harvey Sutherland acquired a freightload of Y2K minimal cargo from Akufen, Ricardo, and Baby Ford-courtesy of local Melbourne hero Martin L-which bent the album towards a moreish pointillism. The resulting music's eyes-down minimal gestures within expressive pop shapes feels apt for the apparently contradictory things we can't help craving: immediacy and craft, on-tap 'authenticity,' life lessons drawn from Reel nonsense. A few years after the 'neurotic funk' of 'Boy', a thorough excavation of interiority that comprised Harvey Sutherland's first LP proper, 'Debt' is his to-the-point response to pressures that manifest outside the self. But in it's own way it remains a reflection of Harvey Sutherland's musical innerscapes, which stretch across the grit and glitter of private-press disco and the sensual grids of Metro Area. *FULL TRACKLIST COMING SOON* Tracklisting: A1. A2. Cigarette (3:34) A3. Body Language (ft. Julian Hamilton) (4:13) A4. A5. B1. Nobody like U (5:23) B2. B3. B4. B5. Hummingbird (5:25)
UPC > 199538199277
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Clarity
Release Date > Release Date: 10.10.25
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'Debt' is a new album by Harvey Sutherland about the cost of doing business in the meme economy. In his first LP since his 2022 debut 'Boy', the Australian artist reduces his fusiony disco repertoire to ten microhoused funk essentials. This is minimalism not so much as aesthetic conceit than as a pressurized container, shaken in the Escherised time and space unique to our overdriven, red-lining present. The album's title nods to the financial contortions necessary to strive/survive/thrive as an independent artist. But 'Debt' is better understood as the ledger of what we owe, and to whom, in the course of a creative life. What's the ROI on being an artist, a son, a friend, a partner, a father? Have we been worth our loved ones' own investments? If that sounds transactional, this is merely the lingua franca of our overwhelmingly digital culture, a grifter's bazaar in which Bob Dylan tunes up over Salt Bae, and Wordsworth's pitch is opposite the Rizzler. 'Debt' came to life when Harvey Sutherland acquired a freightload of Y2K minimal cargo from Akufen, Ricardo, and Baby Ford-courtesy of local Melbourne hero Martin L-which bent the album towards a moreish pointillism. The resulting music's eyes-down minimal gestures within expressive pop shapes feels apt for the apparently contradictory things we can't help craving: immediacy and craft, on-tap 'authenticity,' life lessons drawn from Reel nonsense. A few years after the 'neurotic funk' of 'Boy', a thorough excavation of interiority that comprised Harvey Sutherland's first LP proper, 'Debt' is his to-the-point response to pressures that manifest outside the self. But in it's own way it remains a reflection of Harvey Sutherland's musical innerscapes, which stretch across the grit and glitter of private-press disco and the sensual grids of Metro Area. *FULL TRACKLIST COMING SOON* Tracklisting: A1. A2. Cigarette (3:34) A3. Body Language (ft. Julian Hamilton) (4:13) A4. A5. B1. Nobody like U (5:23) B2. B3. B4. B5. Hummingbird (5:25)
UPC > 199538199277
Format > New Vinyl
Label > Clarity
Release Date > Release Date: 10.10.25
Shop online at Darkside Records.
Follow us on Instagram.
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to ONE copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.