BIOGRAPHY

Evermore’s journey from three home-schooled brothers in country New Zealand to taking over the Australian charts with the debut album Dreams in 2004 is almost the stuff of indie-rock folklore. Since then the band’s anthems of youth, love and lament have continued to capture a nation and traverse the seas with an impressive string of chart hits, critical acclaim, industry awards and sold out tours. On the precipice of the release of their fourth studio album, the band remains wide-eyed, ever ambitious and, amazingly, all still under the age of thirty! In many ways their journey is just beginning.

Self-recorded, produced, mixed, and released, the new album is aptlytitled Follow the Sun. As Jon describes: “I'd always had this idea to take a mobile studio to inspiring places around the world and record the results, so that's exactly what we did. We went to LA, Buenos Aires, Paris, Jerusalem, Spain and Morocco. It was anamazing trip, so many experiences I'll never forget…getting patted down for weapons by cops on the side of the freeway outside Los Angeles after we ran out of gas, getting completely lost in the maze of ancient streets and incredible food that is Marrakech. The trip added musical richness to the album and songs but ultimately we wrote more of the songs at home at our own studio, the Stables.”

The studio Jon refers to is the one they hand-built within an old stable on their property in the Mount Macedon area on the outskirts of Melbourne. It is here that they fine-tuned the acoustic results from their trip and, in amongst a litany of other pursuits, wrote a stack of new material. “While making this album so many other things have happened. We've built a fully-fledged recording studio, produced albums (Jon producing Evermore and Amy Meredith and Dann producing Lisa Mitchell, Alpine and others), we've travelled the world, and I'm now married to boot! It's been a real journey in every sense making this album but I think it’s all the better for it.”

The results are Evermore’s most accomplished effort to date – sitting somewhere between early U2 and Simple Minds expansiveness, bluesy late Beatle’s jams and driving 70’s folk, all connected by a mesh of hopeful, engaging lyrics. As Jon explains, “From jamming together and trying out harmony parts in a tiny apartment in the middle of Paris (That's The Way), or sitting at home, picking up a ukulele and a song just falling into my lap so easily it's as if someone else had written it (Hey My Love). Each song has it's own story andthat’s what I love about this album.”

Jon and Pete will take the new album to the live stage while brother Dann continues his work in their Stables Studio working on his new project Danco. "Us brothers have learnt a lot from writing and playing together since we were teenagers. Jon an Pete love touring the music they produce and will be taking the new Evermore record on the road. My ambition has grown more in the recoding studio lately and so I will stay there working across a bunch of different acts. Though we plan to always write and record Evermore music together."…according to Dann

Asked what the dominant theme of the album is Jon replies, “This album is all about connection. The things we have in common between the three of us as brothers and friends. The common threads of life that everyone experiences…love, loss and friendship. I think finding the love my life and getting married last year has been a big influence on my writing. We travelled around the world looking for inspiration but ended up finding of the most compelling songs in the closest places to home.”

Evermore’s songs have always evoked a sense of grandeur: youthful energy, indomitable spirit and a constant yearning for human connection…best listened to in large groups and at maximum volume. There is something kinetic about the brother’s Hume, and their songs reflect just that, heart-stopping velocity captured in a freeze frame. Their new album is one of boldness andhope, existing at that horizon point in the distance where the sun appears impossibly large but undoubtedly real.