Drinking With My Smoking Friends
On his fourth record, Drinking With My Smoking Friends, Allday – born Tom Gaynor – captures evocative snippets of life from the “extended youth” he found himself experiencing when he returned from Los Angeles to home soil, relocating to Melbourne after living abroad for over a year.
Marking a significant shift in genre, Drinking With My Smoking Friends integrates more guitar-driven pop sounds into the talented lyricist’s sonic universe.
Across the record, Gaynor charts the story of two lovers, a kind of disillusioned Bonnie and Clyde, hellbent on fleeing a dead-end town with stars in their eyes.
Gaynor shares: “‘Drinking With My Smoking Friends’ is about escaping something and finding something new, whether that’s a place, a relationship or something else.”
The record tells stories of suburban drudgery and inner city decay, crafting sculptures of Australian life and the hopefulness of not only youth, but of youthful thinking as well.
