PETER BIBBY // Drops New Single & Video ‘Oceans’

May 13, 2020 / WORDS Ciara Allen / PHOTOS Annie Harvey / Sounds Of The Underground

Perth’s cult musical figure Peter Bibby returns with his brand new single and video Oceans.

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Swept along with the help of Dog Act, this ferocious slive of modern garage rock sounds like it’ll cut through your speakers with a shiv.

“Oceans started out as a little sea shanty-esque poem scrawled on a piece of paper about going mad in the middle of the ocean,” says Bibby.

With the help of the Dog Act it soon morphed into a fairly raucous tune. I used vibrato on the guitars to give it a wobbly seasick kind of sound, and we had some mates join us in the studio to sing along and clink beers together in the final chorus to give it the vibe of a pack of people getting drunk on a boat. As far as I recall, it is the only song I have written about losing one’s mind out at sea.”

Of the briny visual accompaniment, he adds, “The video was shot around Fremantle over a weekend by Duncan Wright, Luna Laure and Rhys Jones who came up with the whole idea in no time flat after COVID-19 put holes in our original plan. I got to pretend I was a poorly dressed mermaid, a wharfy, a fisherman and a drowning guy as well as have a pretty damn good time doing it. I got a lot of seawater in my mouth for this video, but as we say in the game you have to suffer for the art. This is my second video featuring work overalls.”

Oceans is the first drop of new music since his acclaimed 2018 LP Grand Champion, and in his off time he’s been gracing festival stages at Laneway, Falls Festival and SXSW, all while performing his own headline shows.

Peter Bibby’s Oceans is available now digitally and on a limited edition 7” vinyl paired with a B side of Quiver and Melt from the same recording session.