SOUR WORM SIGNS TO OUR GOLDEN FRIEND DOUBLE SINGLE 'WHOLE WORLD ROUND / FLY' OUT NOW + ALBUM OUT DECEMBER 4
Today Our Golden Friend is thrilled to share the news of our first label signing in several years: Sour Worm, the musical project of Melbourne/Naarm based artist Jasper van Daatselaar. It comes alongside the release of double single 'Whole World Round / Fly' and the announcement of their new album Fly to be released on December 4th digitally and via cassette (pre-order here).
~ LISTEN TO 'WHOLE WORLD ROUND / FLY' HERE ~
Recorded feverishly over four days in Berlin, Fly was written on various couches, inspired by the new experiences, words, and ideas that come when you’re living away from home. Solitude, freedom, longing, exhaustion, hope, letting go, peace. 'Fly' received it's first spin on radio last night via Double Bounce on RRR and is now available to stream or buy alongside 'Whole World Round' at your choosing.
The album was written and recorded by van Daatselaar, mixed by Dylan Young (Way Dynamic) and mastered by Liam "Snowy" Halliwell (Snowy Band), a convergence of some of Naarm's most prolific musicians/engineers. The resulting album, Sour Worm's fourth, is a unique glimpse into their world; an amalgamation of life lived that darts between folk, shoegaze and electronic influences imbued with a dazzling warmth reminiscent of the Berlin sun.
Upon the live stages of Naarm Sour Worm plays as a family band supergroup made up of Oskar van Daatselaar (Ice Magic), Callum Blackburn (Open Scrappy, Piggietails) and Declan Blackburn (Think About You, Flesh Cherub).
Now ten years into it's tenure as an independent label and management company, Our Golden Friend has evolved from a small outlet started to release limited edition 7" records by friends into a powerhouse team for independent artists charting global careers. As a label Our Golden Friend has released music from the likes of RVG, Way Dynamic, Body Type, Jade Imagine, Moonlover, Peak Twins, and Poppongene, and led the careers as managers for Coldwave, Ella Ion, Good Morning, Robert Baxter, Romy Vager and more.
While the label has laid somewhat dormant the past few years, releasing music from the management roster alone, notably Ella Ion's South Australian Music Award nominated Liminal Archive EP, Sour Worm marks a shift into the next era for Our Golden Friend. Continuing to champion music we love for the next decade and then some.
Owner/Director Lorrae McKenna says of this next chapter of the label: "The world is a crazy place in 2026, and the music industry in the year 2026 is such an interesting place to work and exist in, a lot has changed, and is constantly changing, and it feels to me that human beings have become disillusioned by creating and releasing music in our current times. An artist recently said to me “Lorrae, I am completely disinterested in the music industry” and my response was “same babe, but, you know what I am not disinterested in….Music” and the truth is I am absolutely not disinterested in music and the creation of it and experiencing it and listening to it at all times. I feel that it was somewhere within this conversation where a part of my soul woke up and realised that I in fact, had a record label, one that is ten years old now and historically has released quite a lot of very good music over the years.
I couldn’t quite remember why I stopped signing bands to the label, maybe I had also become a cog in the wheel of the music industry that I am now so completely disinterested in, but I woke up one day a few weeks ago and realised that I had a label and I could in fact just sign bands to it because I loved their music, because I believed in them as artists and their vision, and creative expression and no other reason.
And so I have done that, and I am so excited to share the beautiful insular musical world of Sour Worm and their new album Fly, which I have fallen in love with and which will be the first of a few new label signings to the Our Golden Friend label in the very immediate future. I created this platform many years ago to share music that I loved with the world and find audiences for undiscovered artists who deserve to be heard. Such an exciting and invigorating feeling to do something for the love of it and no other reason and now I am excited to see who else falls in love with the music of Sour Worm too."
More announcements to be made in the following months with Sour Worm only the first new signing to the reinvigorated label roster.
TRACKLIST
Whole World Round
This Song
Fly
Little Gitarre
What Have You Been Put Here For?
Button Up
Hit Every Red
This Rose, The Thorn
IDM
Wanna Have Fun
Bisou Bisou
Taschüss