End of Fashion have touched down in Australia for some much needed R&R, while their album sales take off.

The boys from Safety Bay have done some intense touring, including 35 shows in seven weeks with The Living End, to make sure they stay on people's minds. The boys have just touched base in Australia and while they get back into a regular sleeping pattern their new album Book of Lies is being hyped up around the country as a big step forward for the band.

Guitarist Rodney Aravena said it was a bit savvier than their previous release and marked a change in direction for their music. "It's a change for us but not a radical change," he said, "We've got a sound that can translate from one record to another even when we're trying to do something different."

The first single hot off the album, Fussy, has become popular among rock/pop fans and is receiving a lot of airplay. The song is their most critically acclaimed but Aravena said it was one that took them the least amount of time. "It was one of the last tunes we worked on before going into studio," he said, "There wasn't much thought put in even to the arrangement of the song.

"Justin basically sang and played guitar and put down in one take how he felt song should go."

In the end it was the producers who chose Fussy to be released first as an indication of what was to come.

"We got to the stage where we couldn't tell the trees from the forest so it was good that they made the decision for us," Aravena said. Another song to look out for is Bullet which was remade several times in the last couple of years. Originally written in 2006, End of Fashion left it on the shelf because it didn't quite fit the bill.

After changing the tempo and style of the song from a slow acoustic ballad to an electronic song then to a heavy rock song, the group finally got it just right in time for the recording of the album. "It was a great song that we could never find the right clothes for," Aravena said. He said it was a really frustrating experience until one day they were messing around and tried to make it sound like a Radiohead song. "We started playing and Justin's housemate ran out of the shower saying ‘that's it, keep playing'," Aravena said, "Then over a cup of tea we suddenly decided to erase all the drums all the way to the bridge."

Aravena said they tried to make all the songs a little bit unusual by changing the structure of the song. "In some songs we just do verse after verse and then the chorus isn't until right at the end," he said. End of Fashion are sticking around for the next few months with gigs at the Southbound Festival in Busselton, at the Homebake Festival in Sydney and The Time2Rock Festival in Queensland.

author:  Nikkita Dixon