Mr. Industry Break Down Their New EP ‘Dancing To My Own Internal Rhythm’

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Mr. Industry have officially put out their debut release, Dancing To My Own Internal Rhythm. The Canberra-born and Melbourne-based post-punk band have billed it as an EP, although in reality the project is roughly 40 minutes in length thanks to two epic eight-minute-plus tracks on its backend. To celebrate the release of the EP, the band’s lead vocalist and songwriter Sebastian Bell has gone into detail about each of its six songs; read that, and stream the release in full, below.

Mr. Industry – Dancing To My Own Internal Rhythm

1. ‘Birdie’

I wrote the lyrics to this song about my favourite movie: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992). I don’t really like movies, and I would never find myself writing lyrics about a movie again, but this was the first song where we stopped trying to write lyrics as a band – and I must have thought that was what people did. In the movie, Tom Waits’ (number 1 4eva) character, Renfield, feeds a fly to a spider, then the spider to a bird, then the bird to a cat etc. Every time he does that, Dracula gets more evil. RAWR! So, the song is about becoming a more hateful person.

2. ‘Cokies’

This song is about not wanting to become your parents. I remember wanting this song to be just the one part all the way through – so, it took a long time, but everything just fell into place over it.

3. ‘Bagpipes’

This song, retrospectively, feels like us pushing how… listenably unlistenable we could get? It went through a couple different versions of the outro, until we landed on the one it has now only a few weeks before recording.

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4. ‘Grow Kit’

This song is about how much more you feel when your brain gets older. Being ignorant as a young adult, feeling like you have your emotions figured out and ignoring changes while they happen, will violently throw you into all these new feelings. You need to keep adapting and riding the wave. The first half of this track was written when we still lived in Canberra but the second half only came once we had moved to Melbourne – which, I feel, is pretty fitting listening to it now.

5. ‘Greenroom Sleeper’

This song is about thinking certain things you put yourself through aren’t irreversible, and they don’t matter – when they actually matter a lot, and they matter for life. The lyric “I can’t believe I made a sex tape/The realisation is so wasted” is really just an out-of-pocket, ear-catching way of conveying that message. Disclaimer: I DID NOT MAKE A SEX TAPE. I also open the song live by saying “2016! Take me back to 2016!” – which is a quote from Joey Graceffas’ YouTube Red original Escape The Night.

6. ‘DTMOIR’

I wrote this song about my mother, soon after moving to Melbourne. It is about the sad fact that after I left, she had nothing: No hobbies, no job, no kids, no husband etc. It relates to any parent who kind of gives it all to raise their kids who end up hating them… and then they have nothing because they weren’t dancing to their own internal rhythm, they were trying to hear someone else’s. Maybe they are dancing to their own internal rhythm and that’s where it led them… crazy to think about. This song’s verse guitar actually used to be the outro for ‘Grow Kit’, and still shares the same melody with its second verse.

Dancing To My Own Internal Rhythm is out now via Community Music. The band will launch the EP with a show at the Evelyn Hotel in Melbourne on Saturday, August 2nd; tickets on sale via Oztix.