Artist:The Townhouses

Melbourne’s Jeff Lee has been making sparse collages of sound for the last five years, carefully constructing a collection of albums and EPs under the grammatically awkward name, The Townhouses. Jeff’s unique style of dream-pop is politely interrupted with influences as far flung as Tropicália, Bill Callahan and Indonesian Gamelan. The result of these years of practice and hard work is the intricate Ill-Fitting, the Townhouses’ third and last full-length release. Saxophones, acoustic guitars and a three minute vibraphone solo are some of the new additions Ill-Fitting offers to The Townhouses’ already vast repertoire, as well as the notable utilisation of Lee’s soft baritone-tenor voice, featured throughout the whole record. Whilst Jeff’s previous record Diaspora (through Sydney label, Yes Please) concentrated on the tribulations of population separation in Australia, Ill-Fitting focuses on the more internal struggles we face working full-time, moving out of the suburbs and ...