Dutch Monks' top 5 bands to listen to on the drive to work.

I love to listen to music on my drive into work each day, it helps me get pumped up for a big day of science in the lab!

Top 5 bands to listen to on the drive to work!

Montana Sharp: Ok, so I am a tad biased on this first one…Montana sang backing vocals on just about all of the songs on our forthcoming Dutch Monks album, and she is just incredible! We were so lucky to have her come into the studio and add her musical flavour to our tracks as a backing vocalist, it just took the tracks to another level. Montana is a budding young solo artist and recently released her debut single ‘Greenhouse’, go check it out! Unfortunately for us we doubt we’ll have the pleasure of working with her on our second album…only because we predict she will be busy touring sold out stadiums by then! (If/when the COVID-19 situation allows of course)

Team Vom: A rocking 5 piece with 2 or 3 different songwriters, spitting out a bunch of different sounds, all of which I love! Interesting mixtures of guitars, keys, electric ukulele sit over a thumping rhythm section…Their 2019 album ‘Sloth Gospel’ is one of my favourite albums of all time, rock solid from go to whoa!

Kaku: In my opinion Kaku are one of the tightest, professional rock bands going around Melbourne. Massive Riffs, cool song structures and an incredible live show developed from 5 years of playing together as a band, KaKu are going good places. Check them out if you haven’t already! I’d describe it as a sound that sits somewhere between the best of Artic Monkeys (that awesome ‘AM’ album) and Queens Of The Stone Age. I’d suggest their song ‘Vanity and Clarity’ as a good starting point, and then did deeper from there!

Greg Steps: After meeting Greg at on open mic night we were both playing in Melbourne and grabbing one of his CD’s (sneakily of course, without him knowing), I’ve listened to Greg’s music so much over the last 5 years or so (or is it 10? bloody hell, I’m getting old!). Very Bob Dylan-esque guitar/harmonica sound with a twangy Queenslander vocal tone and plenty of heart put into each of the tracks. Check out his album with the not for prophets- ‘The Overland’.

Bad Mother Nature: I only found these guys recently when they basically spammed our band page with a ‘We will pre-save your single if you pre-save ours’ kind of social media message....For whatever reason I decided to actually check out their stuff and it’s bloody awesome! Really nice arrangements of guitars and piano, and lots of intricate musicianship. Pretty much playing their stuff on repeat all the time now, so I guess the lesson there is that spam does work sometimes! Haha…Well played, lads! With guitar solos a plenty and big vocal harmonies, it kind of sounds like a mixture of ‘The Black Keys’ and ‘The Eagles’…with maybe even a bit of ‘Led Zeppelin’ influence chucked in there! Check out their new single ‘Rest of Me’.

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