VIDEO PREMIERE: Nashville via Australia Artist Josh Rennie-Hynes Unloads Alt-Pop Banger “Not The One”

Photo by Corinne Atamaniuk

Nashville via Australia isn’t an artistic path we’ve heard often, but somehow it all makes sense. Take the outrageous alt-pop flair from the outback and mix it with the pristine Nashville production and we get something that smells like Parcels bathing musically with Lord Huron. Nashville-via-Australia artist Josh Rennie-Hynes takes the prize home with his forthcoming solo full-length Day Rage.

When Rennie-Hynes moved to Nashville in May of 2018, he wasn’t just leaving behind his homeland. He was leaving behind a solo career built on two acclaimed albums (2014’s February and 2016’s Furthermore) and his role as one half of The Ahern Brothers. A folk duo whose harmony-heavy debut album earned a four-star review from Rolling Stone, The Ahern Brothers had quickly become one of Australia’s successful exports. Yet, Rennie-Hynes was looking for a change, in both musical direction and setting. 

Moving into the close-knit East Nashville community, Rennie-Hynes immersed himself in the inspiring and thriving creative scene. Newly settled and able to write daily, he got to work. With an album’s worth of songs written and his recording band assembled, he headed to Nashville’s world-famous Sound Emporium studios to record the Album live to tape over three days. In late 2019 Rennie-Hynes released the indie rock-tinged Patterns. Produced by guitarist Alex Munoz (Margo Price, Nikki Lane), Patterns marked a distinct move away from his prior folk roots and into a fuller sound. Just as he was preparing to tour in support of the release, the COVID pandemic began to roll across the globe and lockdowns hit in the US. 

With touring put on hold indefinitely, Rennie-Hynes met a kindred spirit one night at an East Nashville party in Kyle Henderson (Desert Noises). He wanted to move forward with a new direction so that same week they agreed to meet up and wrote the title track ‘Day Rage’ and knew they were onto something. Enthralled in the quality of their collaboration at Henderson’s Moon Room Studios, they quickly refined their creative process and set about creating an album’s worth of songs. After getting each track to a point were they satisfied, he and Henderson would immediately move on to the next, working from instinct. Writing and recording as they went kept the experience spontaneous, with that tension and exuberance coming across fully on Day Rage. Rennie-Hynes played almost every instrument on the record, immersing himself so that the music has a seamless inner coherence.  

Glide is premiering the video for Rennie-Hynes, “Not the One,” a contagious alt-pop banger that displays the artist’s tenacious knack for experimental pop and hooks.

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2 Responses

  1. What a beautiful write up. I think you really did your research, thanks for promoting this incredible artist. He’s gonna change the game for sure.

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