Offline, by Lewis Coleman

Offline

by Lewis Coleman

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1.	Offline 07:08 video		buy track
2.	Talking To Yourself 03:37 video	lyrics	buy track
which one do you want? do you see it on the wall here? a stitch up, slip of tongue can’t save anyone from all this. It’s your pantomime, you can pick your props I can’t really relate to you cos’ I’m so caught up selling my own life we’re talking to ourselves we’re talking to ourselves i don’t wanna know anymore we’re talking to ourselves….. watching everyone’s signpost figures getting blown out no more hearts beating in full I got the message from a woman who makes her own doubt given that you work a lot, you’re a workaholic or it’s numbed fear but come on… we’re talking to ourselves i don’t wanna know anymore we’re talking to ourselves we’re talking to ourselves we’re talking to ourselves ahh… switch it off
3.	Indigo 03:06 video	lyrics	buy track
I WENT TO SEE YOU INDIGO THEY SAID IT WAS JUST DEEPER BLUE I WENT TO SEE YOU INDIGO THE COLOURS DRAINED FROM ME OH INDIGO IS IT A THING I USED TO KNOW I TOOK THE WHEEL AND LET IT GO I’LL LEAVE IT ALL TO CHANCE AND LET THE COLOURS RAIN ON ME YOUR EYES, JUDGE ON THEIR OWN A MEASURE OF A SEAMLESS CODE CAN ANYBODY SEE SO FAR? OH INDIGO YOU’RE HIDING THINGS FROM ME AGAIN I WANT TO SEE YOUR RIVER BEND SO CLEARLY, BUT REALLY WHAT IS IT YOU GET FROM ME? WHAT IS IT YOU GET FROM ME? WELL WHAT IS IT YOU GET?
4.	Your Future 03:28		buy track
5.	Sip 03:26		buy track
6.	Golden Morning 02:49		buy track
7.	Sandy 04:07		buy track
8.	Torn Line 03:32		buy track
9.	Truth 02:40		buy track
10.	Money Mike 04:39		buy track
11.	Courts 03:33 video	lyrics	buy track
WOKE UP TO A JOLT OF LOVE REALISED I DIDN’T WANT TO BE PARTED I COULDN’T WAIT TO HEAD AROUND FOR DINNER AND SAY THAT ALL I WANTED WAS TO BE IN THEIR ARMS AGAIN IT DIDN’T ROLL OUT LIKE MY SIMULATION I COULD FEEL MY BODY FILL WITH A SADNESS IT BOILED UP AND MADE ME SPEW OUT QUESTIONS FAILING TO STICK TO ONE THAT I REALLY MEANT, LIKE WAIT A MINUTE, DON’T YOU LOVE ME AS MUCH? WHAT IF I JUST CHANGED IT UP, MADE IT WORK? I THINK THAT I’M IN LOVE WITH NOSTALGIA I WANT EVERYTHING TO BE OPEN-ENDED I WANT TO PULL THE PAST FROM OUT OF NOWHERE AND WALK AROUND IN IT LIKE I STILL LIVE THERE IN THAT MOMENT, THINGS ARE ALL IN THE SWEETEST GLOW QUICKLY FORGETTING THINGS YOU KNOW THAT WERE BLEEDING SLOW WAIT A MINUTE, DON’T YOU LOVE ME AS MUCH? WHAT IF I JUST CHANGED IT UP, MADE IT WORK? LOVE’S NOT THAT CLEAR LOVE’S NOT THAT FAIR LOVE’S NOT LOVE’S NOT THAT CLEAR
12.	Eggshells 03:37		buy track

about

Out now on the new Naarm-based label Beloved Recordings, Lewis Coleman's latest offering Offline is a collection of songs grounded in a desire to generate a current within stagnant and hopeless waters. It marks a significant departure from Colemans previous, more brooding and introverted record Method of Places, and as he leans into a more confident, outward facing aspect of himself, so too does Offline. It’s music replete with playful arrangements and kinetic opportunity and, as Coleman states, “songs that are hot, warm, saturated and fun”.

Whether it’s the lanky, dawdling guitar lines in the title track Offline to the propulsive drums and coiled, abstract string phrasing of Your Future and Sandy, Offline undulates through Colemans idiosyncrasies and observations, fluxing and unfurling through less familiar aspects of his identity in conspicuous and playful ways. In Coleman’s words, Offline “explores the fantasy worlds we, by paradox of technological separateness and closeness, build around ourselves and the people we love, and the social architectures around sharing and selling our lives in this landscape.”

Coleman had planned to play more shows around Method Of Places but, like many of us in the early days of the pandemic, he spent a lot of time alone instead. He insulated himself in his bungalow studio, crafting what would become, for him, a collection of songs that celebrate a more confident and daring side. His goals were simple, and perhaps an antidote to the time: Create “a record that encourages the listener to energise themselves and move forward. It’s music to get out of bed for.” With most of the instrumentation and lyrics laid down by Coleman in Naarm, a five day stint in Meanjin/Brisbane with dear friend Sam Cromack of Ball Park Music granted Coleman time to shape and oxygenate the structure of Offline and its lyrical form. What emerges is a collection of songs that both melodically and lyrically conjure imagery of someone looking inwards to expand outwards.

Between these two records, Coleman has become a preeminent collaborator, producing music for and performing with Mo’Ju, Gabriella Cohen, Ruby Gill, Kat Edwards, Darvid Thor and Coda Chroma. A generous, well (be)loved and similarly underrated musical gem in our community, he has comfortably come into his own.

With the release date set for October 27th, 2023 and a series of visual accompaniments aided by Jack Ralph, Myka Wallace & Darvid Thor, Offline can’t be relegated to a particular medium or craft, more a series of impressions, moods and abstractions that accentuate Colemans movement through the uncomfortable and unfamiliar. It is as Coleman suggests, “discovering how colour can be brought out of the blue and into the reds”. Offline is a strut with Coleman and his friends, it’s a top button undone and coarse Indigo sheets, it arrives creased and complex like Coleman and can’t be ironed out.

credits

released October 27, 2023

This record was made cooped up, like many records are, like my records are, but I was more restless than last time, and that restlessness bled into the music, and it felt good to turn stuff up a bit more, and to mouth nonsense in between the sense I was trying to make. The nonsense encouraged the sense, and they both eventually felt worth sharing.

Special and endless thanks to Sam Cromack, Darvid Thor and Josh Barber for their considerable dedicated contributions and support towards this record.

To those that lent a warm helping hand amongst the songs, Jesse Glass, Emma Kelly, Henry Jenkins, Max Dowling, Louis McDonald, Hudson Whitlock, Ella Sweeney and my sisters, Hannah, Rose and Mia.

To those that inspired and supported around the songs, Jack Ralph and the film crew, Grace O’Connor, Nick Roder, Phoebe Zantis, Myka Wallace, Finn Rees, Ruby Tuesday, Mia Audrey, all the wonderful people I have lived with throughout its creation, my dear family, dear friends and beloveds.

All music written by Lewis Coleman

All lyrics written by Lewis Coleman

Indigo, Sip, Golden Morning, Sandy, Torn Line, Money Mike and Eggshells co-written by Sam Cromack

All songs produced by Lewis Coleman.

Indigo, Golden Morning, Sandy, Money Mike and Courts co-produced by Sam Cromack

Drum Engineering by Henry Jenkins, Sam Cromack, Louis McDonald and Hudson Whitlock
Strings Arranged by Emma Kelly and Lewis Coleman
Mixed by Josh Barber
Mastered by Max Dowling
Photography by Darvid Thor
Artwork by Myka Wallace
Design/Layout by Piewack
Released by Beloved Recordings

Instruments performed by Lewis Coleman except:

OFFLINE
Drums - Jesse Glass
Party Vocals - My Friends

TALKING TO YOURSELF
Drums - Jesse Glass

INDIGO
Drums - Jesse Glass and Sam Cromack

YOUR FUTURE
Drums - Louis McDonald
Strings - Emma Kelly

SIP
Drums - Jesse Glass
Strings - Emma Kelly

GOLDEN MORNING
Guitar - Sam Cromack

SANDY
Drums - Sam Cromack
Strings - Emma Kelly
Vocals - Ella Sweeney

TORN LINE
Drums - Hudson Whitlock
Strings - Emma Kelly

TRUTH
Drums - Jesse Glass

MONEY MIKE
Drums - Sam Cromack

COURTS
Drums - Jesse Glass

EGGSHELLS
Drums - Jesse Glass
Strings - Emma Kelly
Vocals - Ella Sweeney, Hannah Coleman, Rose Coleman, Mia Coleman

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about

Lewis Coleman Melbourne, Australia

Over the course of a few years, multi-instrumentalist Lewis Coleman has been quietly building a collection of songs; writing, playing, recording and producing them at home in Melbourne

discography

Offline

Oct 2023
Method of Places

Nov 2020
Going Your Way

May 2020
Animal

Aug 2019

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