Grand Brix: make an album with your best friends, a proof of concept.

Grand Brix is a debut album that began as a last hurrah.

Brix, the West Australian quartet of Jeremy Segal, Thomas Freeman, Daniel Veneklaas and Jameson Feakes was about to break up almost as soon as it formed; after a string of shows in 2023 played around Perth Jeremy was suddenly on his way to Berlin, and Thomas to Melbourne (although he didn’t know it yet).

The only logical thing to do in this situation was record an album, leaving us with Grand Brix, a chugging slow burn alt-rock LP that abstracts the sound of 2000s ‘indie sleaze’ with sharp post-rock sensibilities.

Longing for a future that never was, Brix tap into the brand of introspective indie rock the foursome cut their teeth on, pairing tight and repetitive mototrik basslines with freewheeling guitar melodies on the album’s more vivacious songs while quieter pockets of hypnotic four-way syncopation allow Segal’s vocals to drift to centre stage before deftly giving way to choruses grimy, energetic, carefree colour.

Almost 2 years on, Grand Brix delivers what may well be the first of many last albums to come from Brix. It serves as a time capsule, bottling the band’s influences and remarkable recording circumstances, distilling it into their own brand of mathy indie rock.

Stripped back, warm and visceral grooves and lyrics are balanced with passages of vibrant group virtuosity and thrilling guitar runs.

We don’t need nostalgia—for 2013 or 2023—when we have Grand Brix.

While briefly reunited in Boorloo, Jameson and Jeremy join Pam Boland with a veritable bingo card of indie sleaze references and willingness to finish each other’s sentences, to take us through their Grand Brix – this week’s Local Feature Release. 

Brix launch the album with support from Clove and Thomas McGregor, Sunday Feb 23 at The Buffalo Club.