Top Track May 2024

Dallahan frontman and founding member Jack Badcock unveils his debut solo album this May, fulfilling a long-held ambition and putting his diverse and arresting songwriting skills centre stage.

The album opens with an emotive, eight minute tour de force Life in Three Dimensions– a meditative musing divided into three segments – World of Worlds, Remind Me To Breathe and All These Moments.

Says Badcock: “I guess it’s a song about finding meaning in life but not so much through the eyes of an individual as through the eyes of mutual humanity. It’s common to explore what life should mean for an individual but rarely do we reflect on what the collective human species should do with our finite time in the cosmos.”

It’s a track that showcases the sheer range of Badcock’s crystal clear voice. Punctuated by sensitive guitar, unexpected key changes and a punchy, percussive riff this is something of a toe-in-the-water lunge at the meaning of life and how the longer we live it often seems the less we know.

“I’ve been picking up and putting down/What I already knew/But it seems to be unfamiliar/In shape and in hue.”