Sheppard are back! With their global hit, “Good Time” still gracing airwaves around the world and their uplifting, indie-pop smash ‘Daylight’ still proving itself to be a fan favorite, it’s undeniable we’re truly in a new era for one of Australia’s most successful musical exports.
The sibling trio who currently spend their time between Brisbane & Nashville are set to release their next single ‘Edge Of The Earth’ in early March as they gear up to their upcoming fourth studio album. Fans are already affectionately referring to the song as “the catchiest Sheppard song since ‘Geronimo’”.
The band have now clocked up 1.2 billion combined streams across their catalogue, including 2014’s global hit “Geronimo” plus classics like “Coming Home”, “Let Me Down Easy”, “Learning to Fly", Eurovision entry “On My Way”, and “Die Young".
Sheppard are pacing themselves for a slightly less hectic run into album number four, planning to drip-feed fans with a handful of diverse tracks from the record in advance. All the videos will have a cohesive theme, with the band keeping to their trademark of running the themes through stunning visuals. “The art and aesthetic of an album is there to add to the world of the music. Once the songs are done we love bringing everything together into one piece of art,” Emma says.
While “Good Time” captures them at their most loved-up and vibed-up, the forthcoming album will expand their musical and lyrical horizons. Fans will hear the band processing their “considerably rough” time through the Pandemic; this is most evident on the most recent release. “Obviously everyone was dealing with it at the same time, but the music industry and live events were hit particularly hard” George says. “We definitely felt that pressure too, but we also had some unique personal struggles happening underneath too, so a lot of the writing on this album has been about making it through a really dark patch in our lives, when the world was being particularly unkind, and finally making it out into the warm sunshine on the other side. A lot of the themes on the album are based around that idea of dawn. A new beginning, a metamorphosis. A rebirth.”
Amy adds “We’ve had a lot of time to reinvent ourselves – so this album definitely feels like a rebirth of Sheppard.”