Happy new year y’all! I hope everyone has had a few days to recover and is starting to get excited about 2019 and the year ahead. I most certainly am. That said, today is a little bittersweet. In 2009 I started Buchanan as a project with a few musical friends. It didn’t take long to start gaining traction and before long my life would change forever and a career in music was born. Over the course of two albums and three EPs we got to experience everything an artist can ever dream of: live TV performances, international radio play, millions of streams, awards, lots of touring including festivals and arenas, not to mention chart impressions in every continent. Three distinct, colorful eras (Melbourne, London and Los Angeles) and ten years later and it feels like the time has come to wrap this thing up neatly in a bow - at least for the foreseeable future.
I had always wanted to end Buchanan on a third important collection of songs (after Human Spring and Pressure in an Empty Space). So on January 25th Buchanan will release our first ever mixtape and final ever project. This release includes recent singles from Los Angeles and two tracks which were recorded during the Human Spring sessions - all songs that we are immensely proud of and fit together for this release. We are calling it The Crayon Collection, and today we are releasing lead single An Uncommon Experience alongside a video which celebrates our journey and a decade of Buchanan. The mixtape features production and engineer work from all-star previous collaborators Catherine Marks, Anthony Kilhoffer and Simon Duffy, among others. With this final release and accompanying videos we wanted to capture the entire spectrum of sound, colour and experiences from over the years as we evolved.
Thank you to my family, and to the many friendships which have been formed along the way. To my Buchanan crew and their own journeys, which has seen several marriages and babies born, countless relationships come and go, experiences which have often shaped entire eras of this project. Most importantly thank you to our listeners for sticking with us, growing with us and for supporting a band which has always strived to promote unity and love in an uncertain time and sometimes cynical pop culture. This is but only the end of one chapter, with plenty more to come…