Lese Majesty

LESE MAJESTY DROP NEW SINGLE

Sydney based rock outfit Lese Majesty are set to release a new single 'Age of Outrage' on Friday September 21.

Band Name: Lese Majesty
Album Name: Age of Outrage
Year Released:
Website: www.lesemajesty.com.au
Music Style: Rock
Influences: Dead Letter Circus
We Sound Like:
Tonite Alive
Performing Rights Society: APRA (AUSTRALIA)
Label Affiliation: Independent Label
Geographic
Hometown: Curl Curl
Country:Australia
Touring your Region?: Yes
Band Description

Lese Majesty's music spans a wide scope of dynamics shapeshifting from the dark moody atmospheric soundscapes to the frantic prog-rock inspired "Age of Outrage."

Produced by Luke Palmer (Dead Letter Circus guitarist) and mixed by Forrester Savell (Karnovool, Cog, Shihad), The song has received positive reviews by Triple J Unearthed Music Director, Dave Ruby Howe, and features some well known Australian rock musicians on the track, including drummer Luke Williams of Dead Letter Circus and Luke Palmer on guitars, who also produced the bands previous 2017 release.

Bassist Joel Henderson describes the recording process, "Luke had this crazy riff idea that scared the pants off us… We jammed on it in pre-production one weekend, and by the end of the day we had all the music finished but no lyrics or melody. For two months we wrote about four or five different choruses and more than fifteen different verses until we finally had something that was close to the mark."

"I was reluctant about this song at first, it was so frantic that I didn't know if we could pull it off live" reveals Joel, "but the riff was bouncing around inside my head for weeks, and I had so many lyric ideas that we just couldn't put it aside."

Inspired by the outrage trend thats gripping the thumbs of the current digital age, the point of view is from the perspective of someone who's made a mistake and can't live it down. "It's personal experience" said Joel. "I wrote this stupid joke as a teenager and I always thank my lucky Zuckerberg's that social media wasn't around, or I would have been destroyed…. now whenever I see someone repeating the same pattern, even if what they write is absurd, a part of me empathises with them."

"It was Forresters' cat that gave us the inspiration behind the opening line." Singer Jodie Gibson laughs, "We were recording vocals at Forresters home studio. We walked outside for a break, the cat would slink on over, almost close enough for a pat, and just as we reached out - it would pull its head back… classic cat tease, almost saying: "Is this what you wanted?" So that became the opening line of the song."

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The outfit began as a creative outlet for vocalist Jodie Gibson and bassist Joel Henderson in the basement of a Sydney share house in 2015. "There were always a lot of people hanging about, so we would get friends or whoever was around to collaborate with us, we didn't know if it would become anything, but eventually we wanted to compete the creative cycle and for us that meant we had to give the thing a name, and present our ideas to a wider audience, so we called the project Lese Majesty"

Derived from a seldom used, latin based legal term, “lèse-majesté” translates to mean 'injured sovereignty, or an offence against a ruling class. "I have a ritual each morning where I write for 5 minutes on a random 'word of the day' that appears in a dictionary app" explains bassist Joel Henderson. "Lese Majesty appeared, and it meant the opposite of what I thought it would, then on closer analysis there seemed to be multiple layers which intrigued me, I couldn't stop writing about this strange term."