Fancy New Band - Simon Comber
Simon Comber
Simon Comber's first album Pre-Pill Love (2006) introduced New Zealand to a songwriter of quiet insight and shrewd economy. Written whilst Comber was based in Dunedin, and co-produced with such musical luminaries as Edmund McWilliams and Graeme Downes.
Songs like 'Early Spring Rain', 'Sunday Horrors' and 'Marylands' said what they had to say (on topics ranging from watching horror movies with the one you love to child abuse) and got the hell out, occasionally not even breaking the 2 minute mark. Since releasing Pre-Pill Love Comber has moved back to Auckland from whence he came, and more importantly, written material for a follow up album.
His sophomore release Endearance has for the most part traded acoustic for electric guitar, and is in some ways the folk-rock counterpart to his folk-pop debut. Though his love of narrative songwriting has not diminished, with songs like The Jaws of Life staring down the barrel of family dysfunction with a candour that should delight Smog fans, the instrumentation makes its presence felt more on the new record.
Fancy New Bands are every Friday morning on Morning Glory at 10.20am.
Wanna be a Fancy New Band? Email some tunes and your contact info to morningglory@95bFM.com.