Summer Flake

Summer Flake

Hello Friends

Rice Is Nice

Summer Flake returns in full force with Hello Friends, the followup to the critically acclaimed 2013 debut LP You Can Have It All. The album marks a new era for Melbourne-via-Adelaide musician Stephanie Crase (whose former credits include No Through Road, Birth Glow, Hit the Jackpot and Batrider), having enlisted the production finesse of Geoffrey O’Connor to propel her idiosyncratically sun-drunk guitar pop into new and more lush territories. Drenched in a timeless reverb, Summer Flake’s transcendent songs float on the ethereal wings of pop, via the Crystals and the Paris Sisters, wander down the lonely byways of Karen Dalton and Laurel Canyon folkies, amble up alongside the hard-edged ’90s alternative rock of Hole and Sonic Youth, before finally emerging into the sunshine of other dream-pop contemporaries like Best Coast or Mac DeMarco. It’s only the second full-length release for Summer Flake but Crase’s output has been prolific over the last four years, with four EPs under her belt that garnered increasing attention in Australia and internationally. Hello Friends continues Crase’s tendency for the thoughtful arrangements, ’90s-tinged frankness and dizzying harmonies that have led her from strength to strength, this time adding a deeper layer of emotional reflection to an already enduring sound. These songs, as delicate as a snowflake on a summer beach, unmoor one from the drudgeries of place and time, and Hello Friends confirms Summer Flake as a band to watch.  “Like Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee? Prefer more nostalgic references, how about PJ Harvey, Look Blue...

Summer Flake

Wine Won't Wash Away

Rice Is Nice

Second single from “Hello Friends”, the second Summer Flake album, to be released on April 8th by Rice Is Nice Records.  "Like Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee? Prefer more nostalgic references, how about PJ Harvey, Look Blue Go Purple, Hole, and mellow Sleater-Kinney cuts? What's that you say? They're some your favourite musicians! Then (just like Henry Rollins), you'll love Summer Flake." - Catalogue Magazine

Summer Flake

Shoot And Score

Rice Is Nice

First single from “Hello Friends”, the second Summer Flake album, to be released on April 8th by Rice Is Nice Records.  "Like Angel Olsen and Waxahatchee? Prefer more nostalgic references, how about PJ Harvey, Look Blue Go Purple, Hole, and mellow Sleater-Kinney cuts? What's that you say? They're some your favourite musicians! Then (just like Henry Rollins), you'll love Summer Flake." — Catalogue Magazine  “A hypnotic guitar riff and a steady drum beat create a sound that could lull you to a trance. Then Stephanie Crase’s ethereal voice enters the frame to lead you deeper into “Shoot And Score,” the eerie, transcendent first single off Summer Flake’s upcoming Hello Friends. Summer Flake will be touring with fellow Australian Courtney Barnett this spring, which makes sense; Crase’s band shares Barnett’s affinity for fuzzy, nostalgic-sounding alt-rock guitar figures. This particular riff builds up such hypnotic momentum that when “Shoot And Score” reaches its abrupt ending, it leaves you wanting more. “Shoot and score, take what’s yours,” Crase sings, perhaps forecasting her group’s inevitable rise to prominence.”— Stereogum