The Electorate Decades in A Day

Sydney indie-rock trio The Electorate have come up with another melodic skewed-pop pearler in Decades in A Day.  Following on from recent singles If I Knew & Enormous Glorious Girl, both of which received a great amount of radio support across the country, the new single is yet another taste of what to expect from the trio's forthcoming debut album - You Don't Have Time To Stay Lost (produced by Tim Kevin - Youth Group, Holly Throsby, Peabody).

Decades in A Day is a song in two voices - part conversation and part confession. It's a song about being a kid, and being a parent, and where those lines cross, and where they split. It's a tribute to being in the comfort of your own room, and being wrapped up in a song you love. It also peeks into the hope and doubt of parenthood, and looks at letting go, after so many years of holding hands, making lunches, rumbling and walking barefoot over Lego pieces. All that time collapses, in Decades in A Day. 
 
The singalong chorus was inspired by seeing The Shins play live at an outdoor festival (remember those!) and the joy of having an audience and band unite in song. Nick's drumming nods at the Go-Betweens' Lindy Morrison - it underpins the song's tension for two minutes until the harmonies of Josh and Eliot fuse and fly. Decades in A Day somehow manages to be atmospheric, energetic, empathetic and melancholic.
 
Guitarist Josh Morris says "I stepped away from playing music to study, work and be a parent. I'm kind of myopic and not a great multitasker. When my kids got to an age where I could pick up a guitar again I did. I had forgotten how much it meant to me, and reuniting with old friends Eliot and Nick to make music again felt like I was reclaiming a large part of myself I'd forgotten was there."
 
Keep your eye out for the accompanying video for Decades in A Day, directed by Alex O Smith (Kick It by Peaches and Iggy Pop / Yellow by Coldplay / Smoke Signals by Olympia).