J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Country/The Country (2026) [Hi-Res]

Australian musicians J.WLSN and Liam Keenan, longtime colleagues as art and music curators at a major art museum in Sydney, finally joined forces in a recording studio in late 2024 — a step they had put off for years despite each already making music independently. The session took place at Lost Sound studio in Sydney's Marrickville, led by their friend David Akerman.
The result is the record Country / The County — longform, expansive and distorted, steeped in reverberation. It's built on subtle guitar parts, modular synth pads and sample-based loops. At its core, the record is a sonic exploration of the pair's upbringing in similar regional and rural landscapes: Western Sydney and remote parts of regional New South Wales, where each spent different periods of their lives. The record becomes a kind of score for the drifting plains, scowling mountains and rolling suburbia shared between them — turning personal geography into music that feels as though it exists outside of time.

Tracklist:
1. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Teflon Blues I
2. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Teflon Blues II
3. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Teflon Blues III
4. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Teflon Blues IV
5. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - The Power of Emptiness
6. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Planned Obsolescence
7. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Suburban Dopamine I
8. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Suburban Dopamine II
9. J.WLSN, Liam Keenan - Suburban Dopamine III