Tinderbox

Tinderbox is Myers first for underground folk champions Broadside Hacks Recordings (Sam Grassie, Milkweed). Lead track 'Healers' combines wiry guitar idiosyncrasies with playful lyricism, that embodies Myer’s self-dictated style of ‘musical jank’. Favouring as hambling, loose performance style, his songs of infatuation and romantic connection recall the homespun 80s indie of The Go Betweens or Aztec Camera, while informed by a studied interest in classic English folk and Delta Blues. Produced at TheCrypt by Jack Ogborne (The New Eves, Bingo Fury, The Cindys), and sounding like a set piece from the Harold and Maude soundtrack - ‘Healers’ captures the whimsical, carefree headiness that stretches its open arms across Tinderbox. 

It’s a style that places him more on bills with indie bands than with folk traditionalists. A member of art-rock quartet The Scuttlers, he’s fresh from tour dates with Naima Bock and Sorry and has featured on bills with rising acts Truthpaste, TheSlowCountry and Morn Speaking more about the track, Myer says:"Healers is a love song describing a back and forth that isn’t going anywhere but both people suspect they could be right on the edge of something special. There’s a thread throughout, that the two act as a kind of medicine for one another.”