Ricky Albeck

About the Artist

Tarntanya / Adelaide post-pub-rock artist Ricky Albeck (he/him) shares his new single ‘Famous Friends’, the third and final single from his upcoming record Expensive Music (Nov 6 via Bedroom Suck Records) which also features ‘Playing Pool and Drinking All Night’ and ‘Spend the Night’. Ricky Albeck is touring nationally (ex-WA) this Nov + Dec with his band The Belair Line Band on the Expensive Music Album Tour with very special guests including Caitlin Harnett & The Pony Boys, Milly Strange and Ella Ion, and is supporting Eddy Current Suppression Ring in his hometown this November. ‘Famous Friends’ is a “real country rollicker”, setting ablaze the opening of the record’s B-side with the fervent bravado of someone not afraid to admit they are aspiring to the heights of fame. He channels the untamed drawl of early Lucinda Williams and Drive-by Truckers, the song coming to him so quickly that “when I had the first idea that I was worried it was already a song the song - but it’s just the familiar energy of a G & C chord structure (that does appear in probably a billion songs, to be fair). Because the chords are so simple the song can be played 100,000 different ways. And so, for a couple of years, every time me and the band would play it, it was completely different.” This looseness is a key energetic tenet of the new single, it burns and shines as Ricky imagines the fun, fabulous, and perhaps sometimes superficial allure of fame. Ricky Albeck writes largely autobiographical songs steeped in metaphor and satire. Where he strives for sincerity above all, it’s his injection of humour that allows him to not take it all too seriously. This contradiction is the battle; it’s a delicate balance he finds more achievable through writing songs than being in day-to-day life, simply because of the added emotional context that music can provide.