No Tone Unturned

In our very first episode we find out everything we need to know before diving into ‘Go Farther In Lightness’. We cover the origins of the band, analyse their debut album, ‘The Positions’ , and find out who David Le'aupepe is. 

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We begin our journey into ‘Go Farther In Lightness’ with Track 1 - Fear and Trembling. In this episode, we cover everything from ‘Thunder Road’ to Joni Mitchell and even the philosophical text the song is named after. As we kick things off, we’ll get some insight into the hopes, fears and hardships that’ll define our protagonist’s odyssey over the album’s 15 tracks.

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Bonus Ep 1 is out on Patreon! Covering 'The Positions' and everything the band put out prior to 'Go Farther In Lightness'. Listen now on patreon.com/scrubbingmedia!

Unlike our main series, these episodes will see us trying out a more conversational format.

We’ll cover all their music videos, dive way deeper than we should into the group’s cover artworks and then discuss some philosophy inspired by themes and events of th...

From anxiety into desperation we come to Track 2 - ‘What Can I Do If The Fire Goes Out?’. We explore what keeps our protagonist’s fire burning - is it the will to pleasure, meaning or power? Uncertain if the answer is to be found in Freud, Frankl or Nietzsche, this intensely yearning song also sees him ask God what he's to do to keep this fire burning. 

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In Track 3 - Atlas Drowned, we hear frustration and defiance in the face of political injustice. Our protagonist takes aim at Australia’s colonial legacy and the notoriously influential ideas of Ayn Rand. We are all urged to not grow complacent.

No Tone Unturned is a docu-podcast series that takes Australian music seriously.

Every season, we’ll take 1 significant Australian album, and work our way through it from start to fin...

Full of sober reflection on lost love, ‘Keep Me In The Open’ sees our protagonist pick up and examine the pieces of his failed relationship and come to a profound and much needed personal revelation. 

No Tone Unturned is a docu-podcast series that takes Australian music seriously.

Every season, we’ll take 1 significant Australian album, and work our way through it from start to finish, one song per episode. We’ll comb th...

Bonus Ep 2 is out on Patreon! In this instalment, we cover ‘Fear and Trembling’, ‘What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out?’, ‘Atlas Drowned’ and ‘Keep Me In The Open’. Listen now in full on patreon.com/scrubbingmedia!

Unlike our main series, these episodes will take a more conversational format. We’ll dive into everything we wanted to see but didn’t have time for, bonus analysis, trivia, music videos and more. Then we’ll jump into th...

In the paradisal dreamscape of ‘Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane’, there is everything one could ever want: the perfect love, the perfect kid, the perfect house…yet something sinister lurks beneath the surface. We explore the psychological civil war and how Guns and Roses’ ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ fits into this routine nightmare. 

No Tone Unturned is a docu-podcast series that takes Australian music seriously.

Every season, we’...

The title track, ‘Go Farther in Lightness’, brings us to the brink of the album’s halfway mark. Having now explored the hardships of the record’s first half, this song is the calm before the storm - one that sees him return to a sacred place, only to find the same feelings of alienation there that he’s been running from over the past 6 songs.

No Tone Unturned is a docu-podcast series that takes Australian music seriously.

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It's the song you’ll all been waiting for, the climax, the dangling on the precipice of mortality: ‘Achilles Come Down’. In Part 1 of this epic, we analyse the build up to the big clash. We ask and answer why he’s up there in the first place, who the voices are that want him to get down, the significance of the ancient Greek Achilles, and the elusive French sample that sounds a little like Camus. Of course, we can’t leave out the s...

We explore the final leg of the epic ‘Achilles Come Down’ in this final installment of our 2-part analysis of the band’s most popular track. Here, we’ll see the two opposing voices  meet in a Homeric clash with stakes that could literally mean life or death for our protagonist. We’ll learn more about the existentialist philosophy baked into the song, as well as examine some of the implications of a song like this becoming as s...

In our third bonus episode we’ll examine the movie scene that inspired ‘Achilles Come Down’, as well as allegations that Guns and Roses plagiarised an Australian band for their legendary hit song ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’. Listen now in full on patreon.com/scrubbingmedia!

In Part 1, we’ll be covering ‘L’imaginaire’, ‘Do Not Let Your Spirit Wane’, ‘Go Farther In Lightness’, ‘Achilles Come Down’ and ‘Persevere’, and in Part 2, Jacob’s...

One storm may have passed, but ‘Persevere’ shows us there’s always another one coming. In the face of unspeakable loss, we explore the vital importance of unity, conversation and perseverance. Reconciling faith with the incomprehensible tragedy of life forms a central conflict in this track and the basis for one of the most important conversations of our protagonist’s life. 

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Today, we delve into the band’s biggest radio hit: ‘Let Me Down Easy’, a song utterly enamoured with dancing, drinking and opening yourself up to love. We’ll learn why our frontman is so moved by the power of dance, the clever ways in which this song *tries* to get us dancing, and maybe even have a little dance ourselves by the time we’re done.

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He's won an ARIA for producing Go Farther In Lightness, he’s Grammy nominated, he’s worked with the likes of Kid Laroi, Pharrel and Guy Sebastian, and now in this very special episode of No Tone Unturned, he’s here to share his story, his perspectives on Australian music and of course, some behind the scenes insights into the making of Go Farther in Lightness! Please enjoy this very special chat with Adrian Breakspear.

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The anthemic, ‘The Heart is a Muscle’, teaches us that we can get better at love the same way we can get better at anything else. Our protagonist defiantly refuses to live in the regret of being closed off to love in this celebration of intimacy, and in its 5 minute 23 second runtime, this song reveals what that looks like.

No Tone Unturned is a docu-podcast series that takes Australian music seriously.

Every season, we’ll ta...

The fan-favourite, ‘The Deepest Sighs The Frankest Shadows’, is our focus this week - a widescreen, life-affirming indie rock banger destined for stadiums. In our analysis, we’ll break down how the song laments the difficulties of connection in the present day, what our protagonist means by “the unbearable triteness of being”, and how he triumphantly resolves to persevere regardless.

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Moving finally into the record’s last chapter, we cover the two closing songs on the album: ‘Our Time Is Short’ and ‘Say Yes To Life’. ‘Our Time Is Short’ relays the unstoppable finite passing of time in a way that doesn’t despair, but compels us to let this fact drive an embracing love for life and what it is to be human, and finally, ‘Say Yes To Life’ sees our protagonist look back on the odyssey he’s been on and extend a hand to...

Our final Bonus Episode for Season 1, we cover drama over One Direction's Niall Horan allegedly stealing Gang of Youth's cover artwork, the story of the mysterious woman on 'The Heart Is a Muscle's single art, and further explain the links to The Clash in 'Say Yes to Life'.

In Part 1 we'll offer bonus trivia, music video discussion and extra analysis of ‘Let Me Down Easy’, ‘The Heart Is A Muscle’, ‘The Deepest Sighs, The Frankes...