Luckless

Melancholic pop for depressive optimists.

Tracks

  • Hummingbird Heart
    51 plays
  • Quiet And Cold
    21 plays
  • Women's Work
    52 plays
  • My Machinery
    13 plays
  • The Red Tree
    13 plays
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Albums

Hummingbird Heart Single
1 tracks (04:43)
  • Hummingbird Heart
    04:43
Four Track / / EP
Would you rather be too hot or too cold? Luckless certainly sounds like a project born of too many winters in underinsulated flats. The four original tracks are diverse in their influences, at one moment recalling an early PJ Harvey, at another the folksy riffs of Iron and Wine, or a soulful Cat Power. The sparse, open quality of the songs leaves space to attend to Rossiter’s peculiar vocal quality and carefully formed lyrics. The minimalist approach to the instrumentation is a carefully considered contribution to the lonely atmosphere of the EP. These four songs are accompanied by a stripped-back rendition of Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City' on the limited edition CD, available through the Luckless Myspace. With humble beginnings, Luckless wrote and recorded the tracks on a 4-track tape recorder within one week, and added polish and trimmed excess in the following weeks, creating a modestly sized but ambitiously expressive record. Luckless, a joint project of Will Wood and Ivy Rossiter, has a new single due out on the 31st of October 2011. The debut Luckless album is due out March of 2012.
4 tracks (13:55)
  • The Red Tree
    03:41
  • My Machinery
    03:50
  • Women's Work
    04:01
  • Quiet and Cold
    02:23

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  • Christmas Morning
    04:20
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October 30, 10:13 PM
new song, first song from the album

So, we released our single today!





Listen to it and let us know what you think. We sure hope you enjoy it.

October 17, 05:25 AM
We made a video...

This is for our 6 minute long epic, "Fermina Daza".  Don't switch off before the end, it gets exciting, I swear.


October 08, 02:13 AM
I am Anticipating Summer

Summer is coming.  The days are getting longer and warmer and sunnier, and yet I have a tendency (due to necessity, rather than wont) to spend these longer sunnier days inside in front of computers with guitar or notebook in hand.




Northern hemisphere blogs are lamenting over the loss of summer and the waste thereof (ice floe I'm looking at you), which is inspiring me to make a list of the things I will do this summer.






- film our tour.  We have our first nation-wide tour coming up and I have all these fancy new filming apps on my iPhone.  Faux-8mm tour-journal here I come.
- walk barefoot.  The bottoms of my feet are always pansy-soft and weak, and I always live in jealousy of the leather-soles of my peers.  Gravel driveways and prickly grass mean nothing to them.  I aspire to their tenacity.
- drink in the afternoons.  A cider or a wine in the sun, accompanied by a book or a game of scrabble, is truly what these long evenings are for, right?
- take spontaneous trips.  The beach, the bush, any one of the many parks around.  Apart from the petrol it's free, and the groups of friends that just happen to be free at that moment are always the most joyous ones.
- write.  A year spent on this record hasn't exhausted the songs at all, I still love them, but I want to create something new again.
- spend time on the important things, with the important people.  I've lost a lot of desire to meet new people this year.  Instead I've come to realize how wonderful having people I truly know in my life is.  I want to spend my time on them, not in anonymous bars with anonymous people.



Of course there will be the inevitable new years aspirations and resolutions, but they can wait a few months before forming.  At the moment I am reconciled to the inevitable hours I have to spend inside, away from this new spring, but when those hours are completed I will make a record of the time I spend doing the above.








September 28, 09:59 PM






You know how sometimes you stumble across a band totally unexpectedly and they're exactly what you were looking for?
September 24, 07:17 AM
Video evidence.

Some wonderful friends of ours have taken a couple of live videos of us playing. Because they're so talented I wanted to share them.



Video by Rachel Brandon.


Video by Morgan Look.

September 11, 05:40 AM



Weekend reading.  Underneath is Blink from A Low Hum's "The Process In Which I Plan, Book and Manage Overseas DIY Tours".  It's excellent, if anyone's into that kind of thing.






We have a video-type thing almost ready to be seen by the wide world.  We recorded it live at The Brick Room at Roundhead with the amazing Gareth Van Niekerk of Northwest Digital and Aimee Carruthers of Papercut Design.



September 07, 05:55 AM
eye candy
Sometimes I just want to look at beautiful things...




I go here....

 




... and here....





... and here....





... and I imagine that I live here...








I wish there were more places to look at beautiful things though.  Share with me?
August 24, 01:28 AM
Sometimes



Sometimes life just seems too cruel for words.



Gareth, they told me you loved this song.






September 16, 01:26 AM
Ira Glass













August 08, 05:58 AM
Jon Lemmon

Yes, his name is Jon Lemmon, and he makes glorious pop music.

August 04, 06:43 AM
Meetings

















August 02, 09:45 PM
Woodman





new discovery.
July 26, 04:58 AM
Heads South For Winter

The beautiful Rachel Harrison and Hayden Donnell from Great North have agreed to go on tour with us.




July 23, 09:29 PM
Photograph

Jenna Todd, at JennaTodd.com is a fantastic photographer.

She's taken a whole series of new band photos for us.

Here's one.






We're shooting a music video today with Aimee Carruthers of Paper Cut Design and Gareth Van Niekerk from Northwest Digital.
July 19, 03:06 AM
Blood Pressure



July 05, 04:25 AM
Awesome

This website is amazing.






And not just because our poster is featured on it.



It's about time somebody did a decent round up of some of the amazing poster art that is out there on the streets of Auckland.


And I just want to give the amazing Dianne Tanner more props for her beautiful artwork.
June 22, 06:00 PM
PaperCuts

One of my dear friends, Aimee of Papercut Design, has a new website.

Aimee has helped me ever since I first started performing music.  She made my first ever gig poster and my first EP cover, and I am forever grateful for her sage advice and all of her patience.

I have one of her super-sweet prints hanging in my lounge, and it brings cheer to my life every day.













I think you should take a look at her work.  She's something really quite special.
June 21, 01:20 AM
The longest night of the year.




It's 5.18pm and the sun is all gone.



On my mind at the moment:


We have a gig coming up with our wonderful friend Bond Street Bridge, and our new-soon-to-be-friends Rosy Tin Teacaddy.  This will be on July 1st.






Then, as mentioned below, we have a fantastic gig with Bannerman and Canadia on July 7th.  Apparently July 7th is a popular night for a gig, so we're going to do our best to convince you to come down to our gig, which will be quite early, and then go off into the night to see other people perform.




Then on July 9th we're sneaking out of Auckland to play our first-ever show in the Capital.  We'll be at Happy, playing with D Burmester and Big River Chain, along with our mates The Vietnam War from Auckland.




Also on my mind:  tours, videos, photographs and records.


This is hopefully enough to stop me from worrying about:  the cold, laundry, exercise and money.


Enjoy the longest night of the year.
June 09, 12:23 AM
feeling feathers







poster courtesy of Dianne Tanner over at http://icefloe.blogspot.com/





you can facebook-like Bannerman here

and facebook-like Canadia here


June 06, 04:00 AM
Happy Birthday Queenie

Reading:
   Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
   Cat's Cradle - Kurt Vonnegut


Walking Matapouri beach in jeans and a tshirt (it's warm!)


Snoozing until 10 in the morning


Fresh grapefruit juice and pancakes






May 29, 03:00 AM
more archives




































May 26, 05:12 PM
archives




























May 23, 01:03 AM
to June, with love, from Wellington
January 09, 10:48 PM
NewYear:OldPhoto




This diptych from Golden Half comes from a film about 6 months old.



This summer has featured a Murakami Miyakzake Marathon.



Tomorrow the year starts in earnest. Today is like the huge inhale before you blow out the candles on a cake. Or before a sneeze.

October 05, 01:42 AM

I haven't been blogging.

In fact, I haven't been doing a lot of the things I should be doing. I haven't finished a Christmas song, I haven't sent off the mixtape I owed someone for their late August birthday, I haven't been exercising, I haven't been eating well, I haven't been taking photographs.

All that changes today.

I'm finishing my mixtape and posting it off.

I'll be working on my Christmas song tomorrow night.

I'll be going for a run in the morning.

I'm having a salad for dinner tonight.

I got two rolls of film developed and will scan them over the weekend.

Let's see if I can keep all these resolutions. I'll report back on Monday.

PS: I have been reading though. Just finished The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, am half way through Michael King's Being Pakeha Now. Sometimes I want to go back to university and study English, just for the hell of it. I miss critical thinking.

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