Bio

Two years after the release of their self-titled debut EP in 2024, Mood Spill return with their debut album, ‘Bones to Wrap Blankets Around’, a sprawling and genre-diverse offering. Adopting a pass-the-mic approach to writing and performance, ‘Bones to Wrap Blankets Around’ sees four of the members take on lead vocals across nine tracks of this sprawling and eclectic debut. 

On their debut album, memories transcribed in song drift through the deep terrain of guitars, synth, harmonious voices and a driving rhythm section to hold it all together. Soul-stirrers such as ‘Oh My Goodness’ and ‘Emma Rose Goes to Japan’ co-exist next to the ferocious howl of ‘Requiem’, infectious groove of ‘Both Hands’, the oozing tension of ‘Deep’, the tender opener ‘Sing Song’, and the heartfelt ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’.

Mood Spill began life during a spur of the moment jam in Melbourne in 2022, however the 5 band members have frequently lived in different cities across its existence; a shared commitment to touring, travelling, writing, and living life together has allowed the band to continue making music, recording and playing shows across the east coast of Australia since their formation.

This commitment to the music and to each other has not gone unnoticed amongst punters and pundits either. Their 2024 self-titled EP reached #5 on the AIR 100% Independent Album charts, and in 2023 their song ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’ won Melbourne label Pieater’s (Big Scary, Maple Glider, #1 Dads) ‘Pie School’ songwriting competition, leading to Mood Spill to work with Tom Iansek on ‘Can’t Stop Smiling’, the first song written for what would eventually come to be their debut album ‘Bones to Wrap Blankets Around’

In the live domain, Mood Spill breathe new life into each song, bringing an electrifying energy to each room they play in. Regularly swapping instruments, vocal duties and songwriting credits, Mood Spill perform their own brand of honest, heartfelt indie rock with influences spanning from contemporaries Big Thief and Bonny Light Horseman to classics such as Neil Young, Fleetwood Mac and Jeff Buckley.

‘Bones to Wrap Blankets Around’ was recorded over a two week period in the dead of winter at Future State Studios, just outside of Hobart, Tasmania. During the sessions, the band would make breakfast together, decide which tracks they would record that day, and get to work. The band decided to record live in the same room with minimal overdubs, allowing this body of work the space to be a living and breathing entity. The rustle of clothes, the light from the windows, the steam above the coffee, all captured in some way or another in the songs. 

Produced by Stuart Cam, co-produced by the band themselves and mixed by Tom Iansek (Maple Glider, #1 Dads, Big Scary), this album sees Mood Spill prove themselves with a natural progression to their dynamic and eclectic indie-rock stylings. 

Mood Spill’s debut album “Bones to Wrap Blankets Around” is out July 31st, with lead single “Oh My Goodness” available now.