Stratosphere

What started out as a jam in a pool side cabana, turned into months of sleeping on floors in LA and has now finally resulted in Stone Parade's second full length album 'Stratosphere'. The sound is raw, energetic, rich & vibrant. Add to it they have some quality players behind them including mixer Mark Needham (The Killers) & masters by Leon Zervos (Midnight Oil). The fact the album was not only self-produced, but self-engineered is astonishing. They had no outside influence and relied solely on borrowing mics off friends and using brooms as mic stands when they ran out of gear. This no fuss attitude can be heard in the fibres of every part of the new album. 

Gently poured into the back of the mixing desk in equal measure were laughs, tears, sweat, a few empties and many a good time. What came out was the next chapter, the next Stratosphere. 

"These songs are meant for the stage. They are meant to be drunk with, danced to and lived out. I really don’t know how we have come to write songs in the theme of orbiting around the solar system on an adventurous mission to no where …but I like it” says singer Greg Byrne. 

Guitarist Kevin chimes in "The songs on Stratosphere are exactly where we are now as a band, where we've been and what we've been through. To me, they are Stone Parade". Next to him his brother Mark smirks at what he's just said. "What we've been through? We have it pretty good mate, we live in the best country in the world and get to play music with our best mates" Mark quips.