Cassini
from Fortitude Valley by Fortitude Valley
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Record/Vinyl + Digital AlbumUPDATE 7 March: We’re now due to see the vinyl dispatch from the pressing plant at the end of March, so expecting to take delivery sometime in the first week of April. We’ll try and turn all preorders around as quickly as possible, so fingers crossed, records should start arriving with you early April…
UPDATE 26 October: It never rains but it pours.... That December estimate has now been pushed all the way back to early-mid March. If you've already pre-ordered, we've been in touch. We'll ship as soon as we receive the records, but there'll be a bit of a wait - but do enjoy the immediate download of the full album from Bandcamp in the meantime...
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UPDATE 19 October: Unfortunately it looks like we won't be receiving the vinyl back from manufacture until December.
We're really, really sorry for the delay - you'll still get a download on the release day, and our eternal thanks for your patience.
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Taken from the forthcoming self-titled debut album due in September - pre-orders available shortly....
Fortitude Valley follow up 2019’s debut single with the new single: “Cassini”
Cassini is a scorching 2 and a half minutes of slacker-rock and power-pop, recalling the eponymous satellite’s lonely final days and fiery self-sacrifice. Laura Kovic elaborates:
“In September 2017, National Geographic published the article ‘How NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Met Its Fiery End’ [1].
I thought it was so heart-breaking that this spacecraft that NASA had been following for almost 20 years had to be destroyed.
In the song, I’ve anthropomorphised the spacecraft and personalised the story a bit, so it’s just between me and Cassini. Cassini is venturing out on a long, lonely journey that will inevitably end in its destruction just so I can see what it’s ‘like out there’. And even though I know how it’s going to end, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye.”
Fortitude Valley is the new outlet for the songwriting talents of Durham based Brisbanite Laura Kovic.
Having spent the majority of her musical career playing keyboards in other people’s bands, bringing their songs to life with a melodic flourish, it was about time for Laura K to find an outlet for her songs: awkward power-pop that’s bound to appeal to fans of The Beths, Weezer or The Weakerthans.
She’s assembled quite the band too: Martha’s Daniel Ellis on lead guitar and Nathan Stephens Griffin on drums, and Night Flowers’ Greg Ullyart on bass.
Fortitude Valley is the heart of Brisbane’s music scene and it's also where Laura first started playing in bands before moving to the UK in 2010. It was a place that objectively felt mythical, a suburb with a special meaning, looking back from the other side of the world and many years later.
Fortitude Valley release their debut full length album at the end of the summer 2021.
“the sound is one of deliciously driving indie-pop” For The Rabbits
“an amplified pop tune with a highly catchy melody, sweet vocals, and glowing guitars, reminding me of Dinosaur Jr.‘s slacker electricity” Turn up the Volume
NASA’s Cassini–Huygens was launched October 15, 1997. It took 7 years to get to Saturn, which it began orbiting in 2004, and where it remained until its end in 2017 [2]. Staying in orbit meant that it risked one day colliding one of Saturn’s moons, namely Titan and Enceladus (which researchers believe have the potential to harbour life), and contaminating them with Earth microbes. Cassini Project Scientist, Linder Spilker, described the end of Cassini’s mission as “like losing a friend”.
[1] www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/09/cassini-saturn-nasa-grand-finale-space-science/
[2] solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/12892/cassini-10-years-at-saturn-top-10-discoveries/
@valleyfortitude
fikarecordings.com/artists/fortitude-valley
Fortitude Valley follow up 2019’s debut single with the new single: “Cassini”
Cassini is a scorching 2 and a half minutes of slacker-rock and power-pop, recalling the eponymous satellite’s lonely final days and fiery self-sacrifice. Laura Kovic elaborates:
“In September 2017, National Geographic published the article ‘How NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Met Its Fiery End’ [1].
I thought it was so heart-breaking that this spacecraft that NASA had been following for almost 20 years had to be destroyed.
In the song, I’ve anthropomorphised the spacecraft and personalised the story a bit, so it’s just between me and Cassini. Cassini is venturing out on a long, lonely journey that will inevitably end in its destruction just so I can see what it’s ‘like out there’. And even though I know how it’s going to end, it doesn’t make it any easier to say goodbye.”
Fortitude Valley is the new outlet for the songwriting talents of Durham based Brisbanite Laura Kovic.
Having spent the majority of her musical career playing keyboards in other people’s bands, bringing their songs to life with a melodic flourish, it was about time for Laura K to find an outlet for her songs: awkward power-pop that’s bound to appeal to fans of The Beths, Weezer or The Weakerthans.
She’s assembled quite the band too: Martha’s Daniel Ellis on lead guitar and Nathan Stephens Griffin on drums, and Night Flowers’ Greg Ullyart on bass.
Fortitude Valley is the heart of Brisbane’s music scene and it's also where Laura first started playing in bands before moving to the UK in 2010. It was a place that objectively felt mythical, a suburb with a special meaning, looking back from the other side of the world and many years later.
Fortitude Valley release their debut full length album at the end of the summer 2021.
“the sound is one of deliciously driving indie-pop” For The Rabbits
“an amplified pop tune with a highly catchy melody, sweet vocals, and glowing guitars, reminding me of Dinosaur Jr.‘s slacker electricity” Turn up the Volume
NASA’s Cassini–Huygens was launched October 15, 1997. It took 7 years to get to Saturn, which it began orbiting in 2004, and where it remained until its end in 2017 [2]. Staying in orbit meant that it risked one day colliding one of Saturn’s moons, namely Titan and Enceladus (which researchers believe have the potential to harbour life), and contaminating them with Earth microbes. Cassini Project Scientist, Linder Spilker, described the end of Cassini’s mission as “like losing a friend”.
[1] www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/09/cassini-saturn-nasa-grand-finale-space-science/
[2] solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/12892/cassini-10-years-at-saturn-top-10-discoveries/
@valleyfortitude
fikarecordings.com/artists/fortitude-valley
lyrics
Countdown
Until we let go
You had it coming
You’re going solo
An expedition of the lonely; engines ignite
You’re on a mission, baby, better play your cards right
Think back
October fifteen
The day you left me
I thought it was a dream
Send me a picture of the planet that you’re orbiting
I’m still here and you’re going on to better things
Don’t destroy yourself for me
I just wanna know what it’s like out there, Cassini
Don’t destroy yourself for me
Oh, I just wanna know what it’s like
I just wanna know what it’s like
Silence
Another broken heart
Did you feel anything
When it tore you apart?
Even though we knew that someday you would disappear
It didn’t make it any easier
Don’t destroy yourself for me
I just wanna know what it’s like out there, Cassini
Don’t destroy yourself for me
Oh, I just wanna know what it’s like
I just wanna know what it’s like
Until we let go
You had it coming
You’re going solo
An expedition of the lonely; engines ignite
You’re on a mission, baby, better play your cards right
Think back
October fifteen
The day you left me
I thought it was a dream
Send me a picture of the planet that you’re orbiting
I’m still here and you’re going on to better things
Don’t destroy yourself for me
I just wanna know what it’s like out there, Cassini
Don’t destroy yourself for me
Oh, I just wanna know what it’s like
I just wanna know what it’s like
Silence
Another broken heart
Did you feel anything
When it tore you apart?
Even though we knew that someday you would disappear
It didn’t make it any easier
Don’t destroy yourself for me
I just wanna know what it’s like out there, Cassini
Don’t destroy yourself for me
Oh, I just wanna know what it’s like
I just wanna know what it’s like
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track released June 4, 2021
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