News: Columbus Announce Debut Album Spring Forever & Australian Headline Tour

The bitter with the sweet, the rain after the sunshine. Earnest Brisbane trio Columbus know what it is to love just as they know what it is to lose, and they lay themselves bare for the world to see on their charmingly evocative debut album, Spring Forever, set for release on August 26 via UNFD. And as the days get warmer and the Daffodils start to bloom, Columbus will take Spring Forever on tour in October.

Spring Forever will be heralded in by “Raindrop”, a song about love, relationships and how a single event can tear it all down, leaving nothing but fond memories, regrets and the realisation that nothing lasts forever.

 

“It’s an album about love, getting older and coming to terms with losing someone at a time when you’re still learning things about yourself,” says guitarist & vocalist Alex Moses. “As I was writing the album, the references to seasons came very naturally – I sometimes feel like I have to fight through the cold, the winter and the hard times to get to the Spring.

“And Spring to me is a time when you can lie down next to someone staring into their eyes, smiling, complacent that everything will be okay.”

Columbus’ roots were laid in high school, when Moses would go round to drummer Daniel Seymour’s parents’ house and jam punk rock covers before they got home from work. They knew bassist & vocalist Ben Paynter from the school jazz band they were all in, and when he completed the line-up Columbus was solidified.

The band released debut EP Sad Songs And Sing-Alongs in 2013, followed by the breakthrough EPHome Remedy two years later. This led to international attention, culminating in press and radio attention from around the world and the band winning Best Newcomer and Best EP at the Blunt Magazine 2015 Readers’ Poll. 2016 opened with a performance on Unify’s mainstage which was soon followed by the band signing to UNFD and starting work on what would become their debut album.

Taking its cues from other classic power-punk trios’ albums, Spring Forever has a gorgeous simplicity to its melodies that hints at the darkness that is never far away. Produced by former Defeater sonic architect Jay Maas (Title Fight, State Champs, Polar Bear Club), it’s a mature, heartfelt collection of anthems-in-waiting. If there’s a hidden theme to Spring Forever it’s of wisdom reluctantly gained through those little trials that grow into battles within our heads.

All the songs on the album were born in the guitarist’s bedroom, plucked gently into life on his battered acoustic and blossomed into gloriously raucous punk rock thunderclaps thanks to the noise and shade provided by the rest of the band, even though they all retain a sweetly painful honesty.

If the songs grew from a place of sadness, they blossom into the world with a small smile that says it’s all been worth it.

Spring Forever is available for pre-order via 24Hundred and iTunes.

Columbus Spring Forever is out August 26 via UNFD.

1. Summer Dress
2. Daffodil
3. Raindrop
4. Learn To Swim
5. Say What You Want
6. Nervous Wreck
7. Hopeless
8. Broken Glass
9. Replace Me
10. Stay
11. Absent
12. Spring Forever

COLUMBUS
Spring Forever Australian Tour 
With Special Guests HORROR MY FRIEND and PLTS

Friday 21st October – Jack Rabbit Slims, Perth*
Saturday 22nd October – Prince of Wales, Bunbury *
Thursday 3rd November – Crown & Anchor, Adelaide
Saturday 5th November – The Workers Club, Melbourne
Thursday 10th November – Rad Bar (Yours & Owls), Wollongong LIC/AA
Friday 11th November – Newtown Social Club, Sydney
Saturday 12th November – Foundry, Brisbane
Sunday 13th November – Foundry Records, Brisbane AA
*Horror My Friend and PLTS not appearing

Tickets on sale now

For complete tour and ticketing information, visit:
columbusbne.com