Infinity Broke - This Masthead - Limited Edition Vinyl LP

Pre-order - Release Date 4 April 2025

Infinity Broke - This Masthead, Vinyl LP

Infinity Broke return with their fourth album, This Masthead in 2025. Fronted by Jamie Hutchings (Guitar/Vocals) alongside Scott Hutchings (Drums/Guitar), Reuben Wills (Bass) and new member aux-drummer-percussionist Tyrone Stevens, This Masthead explored a collaborative approach to songwriting with half the album’s tracks finding their origins in group improvisation.

The beginnings of the album saw the quartet recording rhythm heavy jam sessions, with Jamie taking them home and composing fully realised songs out of them. As a result, many of the songs started out with cataclysmic beats and mantric bass lines as their initial spark, rather than guitar and vocal skeletons. Album highlights such as the single Abject Object as well as Snowdome of Dreams are examples, they barely stray beyond one chord, creating a pressure cooker styled environment for the band to grind and weave through against this claustrophobic push and pull. The addition of Tim Fagan’s free-jazz influenced saxophone blasts against the sweetness of guest vocalists Liz Payne and Amanda Stevens, creates a bunch of sonic contradictions that tug the listener under, with enough air to surface.

This Masthead was recorded over five days at Stranded Studios in the suburb of Bellambi, NSW by Cody Moore. For the first time, in addition to producing, Jamie Hutchings took over mixing duties for the album (with additional assistance from Ben DeHoedt and Chris Colquhuon). Hutchings’ mixes of the album added ethereal nuances that give the songs a certain otherness. Field recordings, varispeeded and reversed vocals and musique concrete flavours have all transported This Masthead towards being what it is: Its own beast.

Jamie Hutchings - guitar, vocals, percussion etc

Scott Hutchings - drums, guitar, percussion, backing vocals

Reuben Wills       - bass, backing vocals

Tyrone Stevens   - aux drums + percussion, backing vocals

with

Tim Fagan - saxophone

Liz Payne   - vocals

Amanda Stevens - vocals

Tim Kevin - piano

Track list

Side A

Abject Object

On Hold

Snowdome of Dreams

I'm In My Prime

Side B

Yellow Sword

Five Storeys Down

Scum Valley '86

Population of One

A Thousand Windows