Stones Corner Club has unleashed Head Of A Home, a four-track EP produced entirely in his very own studio that sounds and feels just like a “big dads hug.”
Stones Corner Club — the musical project of Queensland producer Scott Gellatly — has shared the new EP Head Of A Home. The four-song release marks Stones Corner Clubs’ successor to the 2020 EP Could Be Better, with a beach-bound tracklist all about “condensing my life lessons,” Gellatly said in a press statement.
“All I have done for 15 years with every last piece of my time since I was 27 has brought me to this last release,” the musician added. Spanning surf-rock to harmonic psychedelia, Head Of A Home sees Stones Corner Club ruminate on topics from gratitude — as on EP closer I’m Blessed — to life’s inevitable changes, all bound by a sonic palette produced within the musician’s very own studio, Apple Tree Records.
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The in-house production of Head Of A Home translates to the EP’s carefree sound, with second track Post Delay instructing listeners to “enjoy the summer breeze” atop percussive high-hats and bass guitar strums. Meanwhile, on the title track, Stones Corner Club enlists the vocals of his wife Jo for anthemic harmonies contemplating life’s “long winding roads,” before a late-song instrumental break gives way to a reflective, guitar-laden fade-out.
The masterful production of Head of Home — which seamlessly transitions from the Arctic Monkeys–esque vocal crescendos of Post Delay to the pop-punk leanings of I’m Blessed — is perhaps unsurprising, given Gellatly’s background as an audio engineering and sound design student. It has allowed him to more than exceed the so-called 10,000 rule, making Head Of Home a worthy culmination of exactly where Stones Corner Club is headed.
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“The release is a big dads hug in a cool way,” Gellatly said. Now equipped with a condensed sonic direction, Stones Corner Club has plans to release a follow up record soon, and intends to bring his experience on the road with potential tour dates on the horizon. Elsewhere, he’s busy creating Stones frisbee merchandise from Zambero lids — a collection lovingly inspired by his dog — and getting “a heap of session musos” to his Apple Tree Records studio.
Listen to Head Of Home below, and keep an eye out for Happy Mag’s one-on-one interview with Stones Corner Club landing soon.
