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The Story So Far
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The Story So Far

eing in a band, releasing albums, you often October, ‘-Anon.’ was thrust into the world, its title
Bfind that the fans you win along the way coming from the idea of wiping the slate clean, cre-
sometimes second-guess or expect the direction you ating something without boundaries, and some-
will go in. After living with an album for a length of thing people could relate to even if they didn’t know
time, and loving it, it’s easy to hope for something the origin of it. Sitting down with bassist Joel Tyrrell
similar to follow, whether that be from a musical and drummer Matt Parkitny, with added input from
standpoint or a lyrical one - while the more albums vocalist/lyricist Trenton Woodley, Black Velvet
a band makes, the more they want to experiment, to delved deeper into the ‘-Anon.’ rabbit hole and chat-
jump outside of the box and to do something differ- ted about the stories in songs, being pulled over by
ent. Canberra quintet Hands Like Houses had, up the police and how we owe it to ourselves to be bet-
until this year, released three full-length albums. In ter.

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