Brisbane rock band Dopamine have today released a fresh, bassy new track titled ‘Someone’. Taking their bright, brit-pop inspired brand of indie rock to new places with a slightly darker sound, ‘Someone’ is drenched in bass and fuzzed-out guitar tones.

Described by vocalist Fin Miller as a project which began as an attempt “to write a Bloc Party song,” but which “ended up sounding more like The Smiths on steroids,” ‘Someone’ evidently incorporates the upbeat rhythms and breakneck guitar riffs of the former, with the beautifully drawn-out vocal style and the sense of yearning affiliated with the latter.
 
While a brand new release, ‘Someone’ arrives as a track which has bounced around within the bandspace for many years, with its inception dating back to frontman Fin’s teenage days. Commenting on the process of shaping the early song into the single it would become, the band said:
 
“Fin wrote this one when he was about sixteen, and it always floated in and out of the set. After Tom joined, he had this riff in his head, and he didn’t know who the song was by. It was kind of a wake-up call to be like, we should still play this song. It’s a great live song, and now it’s the opening track to our set.”  DOPAMINE
 
A self-recorded and produced venture, which then received mastering from Alex L’Estrange (Ball Park Music, Hope D), ‘Someone’ was an exercise in letting the unrefined, gritty magic of the music shine through in its own way.

A process which involved kind offer from some Brissie music royalty, the band said of making the single:
 
“We recorded this one ourselves at our studio in Woolloongabba. It was such a fun process, but because you’ve got no time limit – we really had to work hard to try not to obsess on stuff and keep it as live as possible. We realised at the start of the session that we needed a good bass, as it’s such a big part of the song. JC [John Collins of Powderfinger] was a legend and let us borrow his ‘69 P-Bass which sounded insanely good.”  DOPAMINE

Having spent much of the last few years adding to their glowing and growing reputation as a live band, Dopamine’s impressive catalogue of support slots now includes the likes of Feeder (UK), Jamie Webster (UK), Alex Lahey, Royel Otis, Beddy Rays, The Jungle Giants, Spacey Jane, The Rions, Last Dinosaurs, Teenage Dads, Stumps and The Moving Stills. 

The group have graced stages across BIGSOUND, Crafted Festival, Mountain Goat Valley Crawl and Teneriffe Festival, and have amassed editorial support from both Spotify (Local Noise) and Apple Music (The New Rock), as well as from triple j, community radio, and music media all across the country.

With today’s single only reiterating their ability to elevate their sound and craft with each new release, Dopamine are set for a huge remainder of the year ahead.