Agnes Manners

Fantasia Famish LP // PREORDER

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Agnes Manners presents Fantasia Famish LP / PREORDER

Release date: September 18, 2020 (If you purchase other items in the same order as a pre-order item, your items may dispatch separately)

Having moved on from Sydney experimental punk outfit Hellions last year, prolific songwriter Matthew Gravolin is ready to make his return with the debut of his solo project, Agnes Manners.
 
Agnes Manners is an impeccably crafted theatrical, melodic and expansive showcase of Gravolin’s musical vision, born from an intricate web of circumstance and artistic desire.

While performing and writing songs for heavier acts, a folder labelled ‘Manners’ on his computer bubbled away quietly with songs incongruent to their sonic centres. The collection of misfit songs grew alongside the success of Hellions – an ARIA Award nomination and Top 5 chart debut, a triple j Feature Album, and extensive touring throughout Australia, Europe, UK, and Asia saw the group rise to the top of Australia’s burgeoning punk and hardcore scene.

  However, fueled by a deeply personal motivation, Gravolin departed Hellions in 2019 to turn his passive creation of juxtaposing sounds into active exploration.

“It wasn’t until my father passed suddenly in 2018 that I felt the need to focus on the new sound I felt building within me. A sound that dad would have liked.”
 
Sonically and lyrically, Agnes Manners champions vulnerability and empathy in men, arriving to dismantle what Gravolin describes as “the archaic blueprint of masculinity”, alongside the deconstruction of genre and its bounds. Embracing the androgynous nature of the music and words led him to the female moniker of

‘Agnes’.

Tracklisting:

Evergreen
As Long As You’re Mine
Sincerity In Retrograde
Brilliant Blue
Lime Light
Spiced Plum And Cherry
Sydney
The Young Man and The Seed
Forest Swing
Worship
The Old Man and The Sea
Mangosteen Foothills

Recorded at Karma Sound Studios, Bang Saray, Thailand, 2019

All music written by M. Gravolin and S. Edwards

Art Direction by Pat Fox and Matt Gravolin

Photography by Neal Walters

Design and layout by Pat Fox

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