Bonnie Fraser was tired of the music she was listening to. “I simply really feel like so many issues have the identical samples and the identical every little thing, like every little thing is ideal into the grid,” the Stand Atlantic vocalist and guitarist says.

“I simply felt like I personally was lacking that pure and extra natural really feel in not less than genres like ours as a result of it’s rock music on the finish of the day, and it’s purported to be about how the fuck you’re feeling.”

It’s an sudden place to begin a brand new file, however that’s how she started desirous about what would turn out to be Stand Atlantic’s fifth album, Godbreath, out on October 23. Following the pop-punk roots of 2018 debut album Skinny Dipping, Stand Atlantic’s subsequent three albums – 2020’s Pink Elephant, 2022’s F.e.a.r. and 2024’s Was Right here – had been extraordinarily experimental, drawing from pop, digital and hip-hop influences. However the experimentation took a unique kind this time round: monitoring stay.

As an alternative of the standard technique of recording one instrument and one portion of a music at a time, all 4 members of Stand Atlantic – together with bassist Miki Wealthy, guitarist David Potter and drummer Jonno Panichi – recorded within the room collectively, taking part in every music the entire approach via, with Fraser recording vocals individually. “At first, we had been like, ‘This would possibly sound horrible, guys!’” Fraser recollects. “’We would do the flawed factor right here.’ However I really feel prefer it was an incredible problem, and it turned out to be a number of enjoyable.”

Monitoring stay does make it more durable to get a take the place everyone seems to be taking part in every little thing completely. However that was type of the purpose. And it matches with the mentality of a band who has at all times rolled with no matter life has thrown at them. “It prices an excessive amount of to care,” Fraser says.

Professionals

Fraser tends to put in writing on guitar – if she has one available when she’s engaged on an concept. “I’ll discover a couple chords that I like, begin buzzing some melodies, after which I’ll attempt to see what phrases are popping out,” she explains. “I believe generally that helps me construct what I’m attempting to say with out me even figuring out.”

Fraser is thought for her concise, weak and visceral lyrics. “I really feel like I’m at all times simply attempting to make it not tacky,” she laughs. “Each single factor I’m doing, I’m like, ‘What’s not cheeseball, please?’ I really feel like that’s my information a number of the time.”

When it was time to file the album, Fraser largely turned to the guitar she performs onstage. “We wished to have the ability to recreate the sound correctly in a stay setting,” she says. She and Potter play Fender American Professionals. “I’ve a Seymour Duncan within the bridge now, and no different pickups,” Fraser says. “After which, actually, simply [an] on-off change. It’s so sick. Tremendous easy, Tom DeLonge-style vibes, and it’s my sewer inexperienced Strat.”

Additionally they caught with an equally tried-and-tested amp: Fraser’s father’s Marshall Mark II, which has made an look on each Stand Atlantic album up to now. “I’m so fortunate,” Fraser says. “My dad was a musician again within the day, and he has saved all his gear since then. I don’t actually fuck with the guitars in there as a result of I’m like, ‘I do know I’ll break this. I don’t wish to be accountable for doing something flawed to this guitar,’ as a result of he has so many little infants in there.”

When Fraser speaks, Stand Atlantic have simply wrapped up a string of dates in Europe and are about to play just a few reveals within the UK. They’ll begin an Australian headlining run when Godbreath comes out, earlier than opening for Silverstein and Story of the 12 months on their North American tour in November and December. For a band from Sydney, Australia, it’s spectacular – however it limits their touring rig.

“It must be flyable so we will’t sadly deliver like ten million guitars for various issues,” she explains. “We have to hold it so simple as attainable, so me and [Potter] each have our personal common guitars that all of us use, after which we’ve got one spare guitar, which can be an American Skilled Strat.”

For the set’s softer moments, the rig features a Fender Acoustasonic. “That’s tremendous gentle and tremendous simple to journey with as a substitute of an enormous cumbersome acoustic,” Fraser provides. “However someday I’d love to have the ability to tour with a correct massive acoustic guitar and 7 different guitars that we will change out after we need.”

Breath Of The Wild

Godbreath stands out from Stand Atlantic’s final two darker and extra aggressive albums. The brand new file’s sun-soaked vibe was all the way down to modifications in Fraser’s headspace and private life, particularly being in a wholesome relationship. However she needed to overcome her preliminary hesitation about writing from a extra optimistic place. “I wished to just accept the truth that it’s okay for an album to be like that, though the world is fucked proper now, and everyone knows it, and everyone knows who and why,” she says.

With Godbreath, Fraser wished to seize, “the sensation you get when it’s an attractive day and also you’re driving down the freeway together with your finest good friend, your canine, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, your mum, your dad, no matter, and blasting your favorite songs.”

Godbreath, with its decidedly hotter really feel, will probably be out in time for spring in Australia, which occurs to be autumn for Northern-hemisphere listeners. “I used to be like, ‘Fuck, most of our followers are going to get this in spooky season,’” Fraser laughs. “It’s probably the most non-spooky fucking album ever! Ought to have referred to as it Halloween Breath.”

Fraser had provide you with the title Godbreath earlier than she had written a single music – which has been the case for many Stand Atlantic albums. There was a title observe at one level, however it didn’t make it onto Godbreath, though the identify caught.

“I believed, conceptually, it was attention-grabbing since you may take it two methods,” she displays. “Is Godbreath whenever you’re stuffed with ego and speaking out your ass, and also you suppose you’re fucking God’s present to the world, or is it one thing that you just additionally really feel whenever you’re truly feeling actually safe and confident, and you are feeling on high of the world in a extra optimistic approach?”

However she does have second ideas concerning the title. “I did and nonetheless do want that I referred to as it Dogbreath, to be trustworthy,” she admits. “It’s so humorous. I ought to have executed it. Ought to have fucking executed it!”

Godbreath is out 23 October on Virgin Music