Part Company LP Launch with Lily Morris at Franks Wild Years

Part Company is the new project from multi-instrumentalist Daniel Twomey, someone you have probably seen playing on stage in Melbourne in the last 20 years - you just may not have noticed him.

Daniel has been a staple in the Australian music community, on drums for bands Lower Plenty and Deaf Wish, the mind behind the music of beloved duo Hot Tubs Time Machine, as a member of experimental groups Vision200 and iceclaw, or as a part-time guest with many including Nathan Roche, Talk Show, Summer Flake, Lily Morris, LOU, Brickhead and more.

In all of these acts, Daniel has played a supporting role. A quiet contributor.

While he wouldn’t describe this project as a step into the limelight, it does mark a step out on his own. This is his first solo album recorded and mixed at home by Daniel, starting in Oct 2018 and finished in May this year.

Pulling from references Arthur Russell, The Go-Betweens and the quieter moments of Yo La Tengo. The music is beautiful and layered, subtle and quiet. Not a bold statement about individuality, rather an invitation to step into the artists’ quiet thoughts. 

The instrumentation reflects this fragile place. Tender loops made on nylon string guitar feature on most of the songs on the album. Over the top of this Twomey layers woody and spacious clarinet, gentle percussion and subtle, almost shy, vocal harmonies.

Thematically, the album explores the stepping off point between relationships ending - friendships, bands, family ties - and finding yourself alone. It is a fragile space that hovers between the pain of loss and the thrum of new opportunities.

This is an album that invites you in. A catalogue of subtle shifts. An artist parting company. A shift away from the comforts of collaboration. A first step out on one’s own - albeit a tentative one.