Major Leagues are a young four-piece garage-pop band from Brisbane whose music could easily be the soundtrack to your elegantly wasted youth. With their jangly guitar, vocal harmony hooks, crisp lo-fi production and nostalgic undertones, Jake, Anna, Jaimee and Vlada hit just the right spot between tough and gentle, cool and cute and happy and sad with their music.
Their new single It Was Always You was produced by Australian music industry veteran Jonathan Boulet, and is the first taste of the band’s debut album, due out mid-year on Popfrenzy. The video follows the band as they jam, spotlit, in their back yard under the most iconic of Australian symbols, the Hill’s Hoist, while the use of a split screen gives you a real sense of being in the house where all the best parties ever happened.
In reference to making the song, Anna noted, “I wrote the basic melody under Jaimee’s house last year before we demo’d songs for the album. But we didn’t finish writing all our parts until right before we went into The Plutonium to record the actual album. It was really great working with Jono, particularly on this song cause its structure is so simple.”
Watch the new video below and catch the band when they perform at The Foundry in Brisbane on April 20 before heading to Sydney to play Golden Age Cinema & Bar on April 27 and Rare Finds 2nd Birthday on April 29.