Society Anxiety EP

Tracklisting
1. Vinegar Stroke
2. Porcelain Buddah
3. Lift
4. Submission
5. Blunt

The first song that Sunk Loto jammed on was probably a Pantera song, but the last song they listened to was probably by Jeff Buckley. Which at first appears to be contradictory it goes a long way to explaining the Sunk Loto mandate.

But first some history: Formed in March of 1997 after a chance meeting in a local music store, everything started out fairly straightforward and low-key, "I was just jamming on some song," recalls guitarist Luke McDonald, "and Jase (vocalist Jason Brown) just came up and said, 'We should jam'." And along with Jason's younger brother Dane on drums, jam they did. Some Pantera, some Nirvana... stuff that young fellas with a penchant for loud guitars would play in a garage.

They added bassist Sean Van Gennip shortly after and got seriously into writing their own material. Based on new releases by bands like the Deftones, Faith No More and Korn, they originally called themselves Messiah and started playing in front of people on the Gold Coast. After impressing all and sundry with their powerful, melodic and emotion charged groove tunes, the quartet quickly grew together.

What started as two shows on last summer's Vans Warped Tour, became eight shows as the band impressed the organizers as well as fellow touring bands, Pennywise & The Deftones. Before long, their phone line was running hot with record company action, the band ultimately signing to Epic Records.

"Everyone contributes," explains Jase, "Someone comes up with something, a riff, and everyone has an input. It's really important thing that it says on the CD, 'Written by Sunk Loto'," Jason continues. "This is not just one person's band and with each song we want to be able to try and do something different."

This is already apparent on their debut release, the EP 'Socitey Anxiety'. Recorded by Paul McKercher at Festival's Sydney Studios and with two tracks mixed by Ulrich Wild (Deftones, Grinspoon, Testeagles) the songs display an amazing maturity. Not to mention a hefty amount of brute power and groove.

"Everyone seems to like what we've shown 'em," says Jase. "You've got to try and make the music timeless. People will look back and say that was done at that time," reckons Luke, "But if you've been emotional and captured that moment". We anna be able to look back at what we've done and know what that emotion was about."

"We're spontaneous in the studio," says Jason taking up Luke's theme. "Shit comes out that we never planned." "And we don't want to limit ourselves," expands Luke, "there's only so much we can do with this line-up. We've already started looking to other musicians and ways of making new noises."

But for the time being, Sunk Loto are more than satisfied with the noises they are already making. So are the hordes of punters who may have caught them supporting Suicidal Tendencies or on the Vans Warped tours, or the further faces who will catch them at one of the outdoor festivals they're lined up to play over the Australian summer

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