August River Band Waste No Time in Releasing Stunning New Single “Beautiful Hill”

I only just discovered August River Band and their single “Lemonade”, and already they’ve dropped another track, “Beautiful Hill.” This band moves fast! It’s another gorgeous track, with poetically sensual lyrics and plenty of twists and turns to keep you guessing. Those strings are just heaven too!

“This song explores co-dependency, as well giving ourselves grace as we get older,” the band from Meeanjin/Brisbane explained. “The character expends energy pleasing his/her partner sexually at the expense of his/her own pleasure. In this, he/she finds his/her identity and this of course being the unsustainable reality that plagues so many of us. Breaking innate codependency is a critical part of the journey for most of us as we realise our own beauty and value in the world”.

“The chorus explores the emotions approaching sexual expression as an older person dealing with your own frailty and waning passions. Reflecting on your pride as a youth and realising its emptiness. Sexual expression only reaches its peak when you are stripped of this youthful pride and this process brings so much learning.”

August River Band will officially launch “Beautiful Hill” in front of a hometown crowd at The Beaded Lady tomorrow night, March 24.

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August River Band Impress With “Lemonade”

Meeanjin/Brisbane band August River Band has served up a delicious new single, “Lemonade.” With the band’s strong fiddle and minor acoustic guitar notes, I’m getting serious Dave Matthews Band vibes from this one. Trust me, that’s a really good thing.

The song explores the idea of making lemonade out of life giving you lemons through four characters: a barman, a spinster, a merchant, and a blacksmith. It’s a cool concept executed so perfectly by this inventive band.

This is August River’s first release since they dropped their debut album Thank You, Pain in 2020. Well worth the wait, it comes ahead of a new EP release later this year. They’ll play The Bearded Lady on March 24.

Image used with permission from Fox Hole Films