Love, Lust, Lost, the posthumous album from late Australian musician Zac Denton, has been released. The new record arrives on what would have been Denton’s 28th birthday.
Presented as a compilation of previously unreleased recordings, the album collects a number of demos, album outtakes, and live recordings that display the breadth and depth of Denton’s skills as a musician and songwriter. The album was previewed earlier this month with the single, ‘Ciggie Whinge’, a hopeful song that was recorded as a demo for one of Denton’s former bands, Ciggie Witch.
Zac Denton – ‘Ciggie Whinge’
Having moved to Melbourne from Wagga Wagga at the age of 18, Denton joined his brother Lachlan as the the drummer, and later guitarist, for The Ocean Party. The Ocean Party were a prolific recording and touring unit over the next half a decade, releasing albums such as 2016’s Restless, 2015’s Light Weight and 2017’s Beauty Point.
Before long, Denton had also co-founded the bands Ciggie Witch and Pregnancy, recorded a solo album under the Hobby Farm moniker, and joined the bands Cool Sounds and No Local.
Tragically, Denton passed away in 2018 at the age of 24, following complications pertaining to a brain cyst. In 2019, The Ocean Party announced their dissolution, saying farewell with the Nothing Grows EP, which collected a number of tracks written by Denton.
As per a press release, some tracks on Love, Lust, Lost hint at what could have been, while others show a younger Denton mining for creative breakthroughs. The are portions of future Ocean Party songs, a potential Pregnancy track, and a handful of instrumental demos.
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