Alex Lahey

“Every Day’s The Weekend” is the brand new single from the 24-year-old Melbourne singer, Alex Lahey. It will be on her debut full-length album, “I Love You Like A Brother” due out on October 6^th via Dead Oceans. The song is a light-hearted bop, and its video shows Lahey working a myriad of unconventional, unsavory jobs (pickle supervisor, organ salesman, cake decorator) before landing a gig in a band right where she belongs. Callum Preston directs. This album found Lahey back in the studio with production partner, and one-half of Holy Holy, Oscar Dawson (Ali Barter, British India). The pair pushed each other to create an intimate sonic experience that comprises scuzzy guitars thrumming over pop melodies, helmed by Lahey’s unfussy but arresting vocals.

When asked about the meaning behind the song, Lahey explained, “I wrote it about that feeling when you really like someone, you’re hanging out all the time, and the rest of your life falls by the wayside. It’s almost like, ‘oh I’m just going to pull a sickie and hang out.’ That sort of vibe. So, the song is about losing sight of maybe what’s important to you as an individual for the supposed benefit of maybe spending time with someone else.”

Lahey sees her life as ordinary: "I fall in love, I have a family, I go out with my friends, I like to have a drink." However, most people can’t distil those universal experiences into wry, punchy indie-rock songs - three minute odes to millennial angst and all the complicated feelings that come with it. Alex Lahey can. 'Love You Like A Brother’ is proof.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Lahey initially studied jazz saxophone at university but unimpressed with "learning music in such a regimented way" she switched to an arts degree. Her tenure with cult music collective Animaux allowed Lahey the musical anarchy she yearned - hell, she booked the band their first gig before they’d even prepared a single song. Lahey stepped out on her own once she began to write songs that didn’t fit Animaux’s party space. Songs that were inspired the two people she considers the greatest songwriters of all time, Dolly Parton and Bruce Springsteen. Songs that got her noticed at a local industry conference and scored her a solo management deal. Lahey had graduated. In 2016, she released her debut EP, "B-Grade University.”

Lahey will be playing fall U.S. tour dates beginning November 15th.

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