By Julia Loipersberger
UNION 42 – SECOND ALBUM LAUNCH: SOMEWHERE IN THE SUNSHINE
In perfect time for midsummer, local band Union 42 has just released its second album, Somewhere in the Sunshine. The brainchild of former schoolmates David Farrugia and Marcus Wagstaff, this album oozes cool summer tracks to bop along to – whether on a good old roadtrip, playing beach cricket, hanging out with mates, or just wishing you were doing one of the above.
Having fun and looking at the lighter side of life is an appropriate motif for a band which wrote its debut album, Sketches from the Road, across the distance of multiple continents. While Marcus moved to the UK in 1999, David stayed in Adelaide, playing in those bands which are universally known amongst early noughties university students like myself – Pornland, and Sex Hurricane 1975.
However Union 42 continued to write music as a duo, organising get-togethers in places such as Malta, the American Deep South and Bali to create Sketches from the Road. And now that Marcus has returned to the land of sunshine down under, the band is hopefully going to keep churning out quality music.
The best way to describe Union 42’s style is to call it a melange of Southern blues meets early Beatles meets Lily Allen’s pep (without the attitude). Simply put, Union 42 is incredibly catchy, happy music which evokes feelings of sunshine, dancing late at night under ceiling fans, grabbing cold beers from eskies and making out with your crush for the first time.
Available NOW on CD from http://www.union42.com/ or iTunes via https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/somewhere-in-the-sunshine/id591339271
What more can I say, except – become acquainted with Union 42 before the weather turns cold and all you have to remind you of the sunshine is this cool new album.
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