Small Town Romance - Home Fires

This week’s PBS Feature Album is Home Fires, the long awaited second record from the Melbourne outfit Small Town Romance. 

On their latest release, Home Fires presents a rich and ambitious collection of songs bursting with life and finely attuned insights. With a knack for a story, an uncanny ear for melody and an innate poeticism, Small Town Romance blend folk, country and roots influences to create a sound that is uniquely their own.

At times confessional, and at others observational, songs like Home Fires and Ordinary Life chart the 
tensions between coming-of-age compromise and flights of fancy with pathos and 
tenderness. Elsewhere on the record Pick Up Band, Festival Town and Wild Boys are the kind 
of subtle, closely observed portraits you’d expect from writers like Guy Clark or Don Walker.

Together, musicians Flora Smith and Jim Arneman have two CMAA golden guitar nominations, a Music Victoria nomination and a slew of high-profile festivals and supports already under their belt, the duo are proudly carrying on the incredible musical legacy of Jim’s mother Anne Kirkpatrick and grandparents Slim Dusty and Joy McKean.

Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Home Fires and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl, simply email your name and membership number to   before midnight Sunday August 25. Please note vinyl giveaways must be picked up from the station in Collingwood.

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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK

Tamil Rogeon - 'Ascend It'

Laurence Pike - 'Mountains Of The Heart'

Folk Bitch Trio - 'God's A Different Sword'

Jeff Lang with John Butler - 'Seek High'

PepperCreek Revival with Kelly Auty - 'Train I'm On'

Jerome Blazé - 'Living Room'

Homelander - 'Displai'

Hayden Calnin - 'Greetings at Majuy'

Parvyn - 'Free To Be Myself'

Miss Kaninna - 'Dawg In Me'