A QUICK CHAT WITH ATLAS FRANKLIN ALEXANDER

Congratulations on the single ‘Crave’! What are your plans to celebrate now that it is finally out?

Thank you so bloody much! It feels so good to finally have this out there. To celebrate, I'm heading down to Tasmania to my sister’s farm to hang out with her dog, her chickens, her sheep, and her garden.

How was the process of writing the track

I've been writing this track and my second EP for the last 12 months. I have a little DIY studio set up in my house and I've just been tinkering away. ‘Crave’ started out on my acoustic guitar one evening with the chord progression. The vocal hook was written when I was driving to work one morning. I have a million voice notes on my phone that I randomly need to record when something comes to mind. Together, they went together like Bunnings and Sausage sambo's and the song was born.

The music video looks incredible! Tell us a bit about what inspired it.

Thank you! The video was shot In the Hunter Valley in NSW. My mate Dave Fulham and I got a bunch of buddies together for the cast and crew and we smashed it out one afternoon. I wrote the concept and really wanted to direct one of my own music videos. I sent my ideas to Dave, and we figured out how to make it happen and did it. We somehow got the most beautiful sunset to shoot that afternoon too, so it all just somehow magically came together. Every single person involved in the ‘Crave’ video were absolute dream boats.

You’ve done a fair amount of travelling! What’s an event during your travels that has had the greatest impact on you as an artist?

I've spent a massive time travelling all over the place, with so many interesting experiences, it comes from putting all your stuff in a backpack and just heading off where the only real plan, is to have no plans. I draw inspo from everything and everyone. Whether it be bus drivers, people you meet on trains, in planes, in ashrams, at festivals, homeless peeps, cats, dogs, whatever whenever whoever are all significant. I'd have to say India is probably the most interesting place to go live for a while.

What can fans expect to see next from Atlas Franklin Alexander? 

I've got 2 single launch shows coming up in support of this release:

April 29th at The Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar Sydney/Eora

May 6th at The Cambridge Hotel Newcastle/Mulubinba for Band Aid Festival 4

I will also have a second video single coming out mid-year with my second EP alongside it.