St. Albion 'Ghosting' featuring Max Frost

St. Albion releases a second single, ‘Ghosting’ feat. Max Frost, which is already gathering some early online and tastemaker press: OnesToWatch, Earmilk, TheInterns

"the track takes us on an eerie and edgy ride. Syncopated rhythms and crisp production along with Frost's dusty vocals simply equals the epitome of cool." Earmilk

St Albion – ‘Hold On’ feat. Teischa (1st Single)
#2 Peak on Spotify Viral Chart for 2 weeks
150k Spotify streams
Over 500k combined online plays
Top 50 Hype Machine Chart peak
Support from triple j

ST ALBION BIO
Meet St. Albion, the new project from one of Australia’s most respected musicians.

Sydney’s Thomas Honeywill has been in the music game for years but as St. Albion, he’s making songs that are unlike anything else before. Electronic based but with songwriter structures and compelling guest vocalists, St. Albion has no rules, only a commitment to making music that connects.

For Thomas, this project is about having the freedom to create music that doesn’t have to be bound to a certain genre. “It’s an outlet for me to do something more song-based and just experiment,” he says. “It’s an avenue for me to be properly creative. I’m making exactly what I want to make.”

Already, St. Albion has been hitting the right notes. The debut single ‘Hold On’ pairs Perth vocalist Teischa’s smoky vocals with synthy stabs, while follow-up track with Brisbane producer Feki, ‘One Of A Kind’, slows down the tempo and ups the emotion. Both songs got picked up by a rollcall of online tastemakers and amassed hundreds of thousands of streams, with Hold On getting love from triple j and cracking the Hype Machine charts.

The next single from St Albion is ‘Ghosting’, a smart-mouthed collaboration with fast-rising US singer Max Frost that feels like an anthem for anyone who’s ever been messed around.

“Me and Max sat down and wrote the song together,” Thomas says. “It’s about ending a relationship - or getting away from something - that’s toxic. It’s not strictly about a boy and girl breaking up, it could be about anything: a bad business relationship, a bad friendship. It’s a little bit fun, but there’s meaning to it as well.”

Thomas was introduced to Max Frost during his recent tour of Australia and the pair quickly got in the studio, where they wrote most of ‘Ghosting’ in a single day. Thomas played him a beat, Max jumped in with vocal ideas and together they fleshed it out lyrically.

That sort of authentic collaboration is at the core of St. Albion. “It’s about jumping into the studio, making music and vibing out. Which is the purest and best sense of being an artist,” Thomas says.

“A lot of producers write a record and just send it to a vocalist, and the vocalist sends back a topline. None of the records in this project will work like that. I’ve been involved in the lyrical content, what the song’s about, everything, from the get go. I don’t like to put out things that I don’t believe in or haven’t been part of.”

Watch the amazingly produced video here.



Feature image credit: Universal Music New Zealand