LONG LEAD MUSIC: Rinehearts’ Dom Mariani-produced album ‘Full Bloom’

PERTH POWER POPPERS RINEHEARTS PREMIERE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE “COULD YOU WOULD YOU”, TAKEN FROM JUST ANNOUNCED DOM MARIANI-PRODUCED ALBUM FULL BLOOM

FULL BLOOM ALBUM TOUR TAKING IN WA AND VIC IN OCTOBER

Perth power pop combo Rinehearts have premiered the video for their new single “Could You Would You”, taken from their just announced Dom Mariani-produced new album Full Bloom. 

 Full Bloom is out October 13 through Cheersquad Records & Tapes in Australia and New Zealand, and venerable power pop institutions Kool Kat and Rock Indiana in the US and Spain.

Rinehearts have also announced their Full Bloom tour, taking in shows in Victoria and WA in October.

Full Bloom will follow Rinehearts‘ first album, Can’t Do Nothing, which was released in 2019. For the new album, the band was lucky enough to work with none other than legendary musician/songwriter/producer Dom Mariani (The Stems/DM3/The Some Loves/ Datura4). A longtime fine and fellow Perth resident, Mariani has described Rinehearts as “that rare band that you come across from time to time, doing their thing without a lot of fuss, but with true dedication and a knack for crafting perfect pop.”

Working with their hometown pop hero – one who is also a major player in international power pop circles – is a dream come true for the band, and the resulting recording is beautifully realised with the perfect combination of gorgeous tones, fizzy energy and amazing tunes.  And while there is a crystalline perfection to the recording – with every guitar and vocal hook exactly where it needs to be – there is a full-bodied depth to the sound as well, one that feels like flesh and blood and a heavy beating heart, making each and every track sound passionately alive.

New single “Could You Would You” is indicative of the album’s quality. Anyone who’s ever enjoyed the rush of classic Teenage Fanclub or prime Fountains of Wayne will hear something pleasingly familiar in the lush harmonies and warm presence of the instrumental sounds.

Arun Kendall of Backseat Mafia has said of the new single: 
“The shimmering, jangling guitars and harmonies of Perth band Rinehearts seemingly captures the brilliant bright Western Australian sunshine in their sound, and temper it with just a shake of yearning and melancholia. Their new single ‘Could You Would You’ is a prime example – a twelve-string onslaught of powered pop that soars on layered harmonies and a breezy melody that blows like the gale force winds off the southern coast of Albany.

“Rinehearts again have captured a sixties carefree energy and burnished it with a contemporary sheen, wearing Byrdsian undergarments with a paisley vest and velvet suit while joining the Teenage Fanclub in updating to the modern world.”

“Could You Would You” is also the formal introduction of the band’s new guitarist – yes, Rinehearts are now a four-piece – Aidan Gordon. With a background that includes The Autumn Isles, The Mackerels, The Reductors, Tenderhooks and 6s and 7s, just to name a few, Aidan is, according to Rinehearts‘ mainman Benny Ward, “an incredible guitarist and the loveliest guy on the planet” and he “fits the band like a glove”.

RINEHEARTS – FULL BLOOM ALBUM TOUR

Sat Oct 21 – Seasonal Brewery, Maylands, WA 
w/ Zerodent, Dead Tooth Hottie and Paranoias
Thu Oct 26 – Espy Basement, St. Kilda, Vic
w/ Age of Iguana
Fri Oct 27 – The Eastern, Ballarat, Vic
w/ The Thing From Spring and Moondyne Joe
Sat Oct 28 (arvo)- The Eighty Six Super Saturday mini fest, Barton Fink, Thornbury, Vic
Sat Oct 28 (evening) – The Gem, Collingwood, Vic
w/ Plastic Section
Sat Nov 25 – The Fire Station, Bussleton, WA

All shows are free entry with the exception of the Seasonal which is door sales only

Rinehearts have been powering out the pop since forming in 2016, with the band members’ pedigrees including two notable Perth bands. Benny Ward (guitar/vocals) and Mitch Long (bass) were formally members of high-energy rock ‘n’ rollers Screwtop Detonators, who rode the rock wave in the mid-00s to international semi-prominence, recorded with legendary producer Charles Fisher (Radio Birdman, Hoodoo Gurus) at Trafalgar Studios in Sydney, won the attention of Marky Ramone and Deniz Tek, and were even the subject of an award-winning feature documentary, filmed over a ten-year period, called Meal Tickets.

Around the same time, drummer Ross Di Blasio was a member of Snowman, who released three acclaimed albums, toured with the likes of the Drones and Wolfmother, and eventually relocated to London before disbanding in 2011.

Benny, Mitch and Ross are long-time friends, and you can hear that in the music. There is a sweet friendliness to their sound, and a sense of easy fun. The group’s tunes received international attention from the get-go when UK label No Front Teeth Records released their first record, the 7″ EP Try Your Luck, within months of the band forming. The living room-recorded debut album Can’t Do Nothing followed on Cheersquad in 2019, and the band added an east coast contingent to its ever-expanding but west-centered fan base.

While working with Dom on Full Bloom, Rinehearts guitarist/singer songwriter Benny has been releasing a succession of solo singles (under the name Benny J. Ward) in a similar, albeit a tad more garagey, style. The latest single and self-made video “I Didn’t Mean It” was released July 28 and there are more to come! Benny also recently released an EP from another longtime project, the hardcore punk outfit LEECHES!

Rinehearts are one of the latest in a long line of Perth pop/power pop bands that goes back to the late 70s, when the Manikins and the Scientists wore their Flamin’ Groovies fandom on their sleeves. You might wanna ever add the Triffids to the list – they released their first single on a label called Shake Some Action after all. The 80s brought the prolific Summer Suns and the Stems along with at least two more plant-based popsters, the Bamboos and the Marigolds. And of course, those other, previously mentioned pure power pop projects from Dom Mariani, who is of course the patron saint of Perth Power pop, and who has now personally anointed Rinehearts as his natural successors.

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