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End of Fashion spent the start of the year in Sweet Tea Studios in Oxford, Mississippi recording their first longplayer. "Oxford is a college town. People outside of the studio seemed a bit bemused," laughs Jonsson, "that a band would come all the way from Australia to this small town they all wanted to get out of. But it was cool. There's a good feeling there and great music."
Aravena reckons if you listen hard you can hear Mississippi on the record, though clearly End of Fashion don't sing the blues. Producer Dennis Herring, a veteran who's worked with Elvis Costello and Counting Crows and produced the Modest Mouse record last year, is Mississippi born and bred.
There's no trace of Jean Michel Jarre (Aravena's favourite as a kid),
Sisters of Mercy (Burford went through a Goth phase at the age of 10) or Nirvana - though every band member sites the latter as a formative
influence. "We're not really an angry band," grins King.
Boil it all up and End of Fashion sound like no one but themselves. "For my part, I went into the studio thinking if something's essential I'm going to stick with it, but if I can change something, I will," says Aravena. "We don't want to record songs that the sound the same as our demos. I'm always asking, have we progressed? Have we evolved? Have we found the End of Fashion Sound?"
Check out the guys first two videos
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