Tinpan Orange have been hitting every festival, club and pub in Australia in a hectic touring schedule designed to push the soulful music of their latest album Death, Love and Buildings out to the fans.

The release of their latest album Death, Love and Buildings gave listeners a chance to hear the soulful voices of vocalists Jesse and Emily Lubitz.  The siblings have been performing almost constantly since they formed Tinpan Orange in 2004.  At Woodford Festival that year the Lubitzs stumbled across Alex Burkoy and his talents on the violin.  A few months later they realised they were onto a good thing when they performed at an open mic night and won a free day of recording in a studio.

Luckily enough they had their current engineer Jimi Maroudas working with them on the day who took them to Sing Sing studio to produce what would be their first release, Aroona Place.  Death, Love and Buildings has a darker atmosphere than its predecessor with the tracks on the album tying in closely with the title.  “We realised half-way into the recording that the themes of death and love kept on emerging,” Jesse said. “I still feel happy with the moments that we captured in Death, Love and Buildings.”

The album has been made up of several songs the band has had floating around for the past few years.  Many of them were written while on the move which Jesse said reflected in the music.  “Capturing and framing an experience is at the heart of most artistic expression and I think that songwriting is no different,” he said.  The tracks on Death, Love and Buildings create a relaxed and earthy atmosphere with the clear, bluesy voice of Emily singing about the quirks of life, love and death.  Death, Love and Buildings also features the voice of Renee Geyer.

Tinpan Orange are already well on the way to producing their next album which will have been recorded in their own home studio and co-produced by Email and Jesse. “It’s nice to be doing it from home where there are no time constraints and these days the technology is so accessible,” Jesse said. There is no date yet for release.

By Nikkita Dixon