New album: Spookyland - "Beauty Already Beautiful"

You could say that “the silly fucking thing” isn’t a phrase many people would reach for to describe their (repeatedly) broken heart. And you’d be right. But 23-year-old Australian Marcus Gordon isn’t interested in the routine or regular. As the singer and songwriter of Spookyland, he wrangles profanity, twisted beauty and a fascination with life’s paradoxes into the service of highly personal, vividly distinctive poetry and compelling songcraft.

“Spookyland is about trying to make life seem more interesting. The world becomes weird when you think about it in a different way, so for me it’s trying to push beyond life, without dying, to slightly dip into the psychotic or spiritual world. I don’t know if that’s romanticism, exactly, but it’s the point where you’re half in and half out of the world, at the same time.”