Name: Melbourne Album launch Halfway’s 9th Studio Album “The Styx”
Start: 2025-09-13T10:00:00+10:00
End: 2025-09-13T13:30:00+10:00
Location: Wesley Anne

$Melbourne Album launch Halfway\u2019s 9th Studio Album \u201cThe Styx\u201d$

Halfway have been a band for quarter of a century, and across that time they've made eight studio albums, each of which has received a wealth of critical acclaim. From their origins in 2000, Halfway have developed their style and songs into cinematic soundscapes, lush with pedal steel, densely layered guitars, and driving rhythms.
Halfway's new album, The Styx, features the return to the fold of band co-founder Chris Dale after a six-year absence, and contributions from guests including Chris Abrahams(The Necks, Midnight Oil) and Adele Pickvance (The Go-Betweens).
'The Palace' was the first taste of the new album and now they reveal the second single 'Matches', written by John Busby and bassist Ben Johnson.
The song creaks and shimmers to life courtesy of its gently sparkling guitars and atmospheric keys. Drums enter the fray as the music swells and expands into an evocative sound akin to the best of Mercury Rev, where musical dreams and memories coexist.
"The coals of a fire are neither flame nor ash. 'Matches' sits in the space between ignition and extinction, rooted in uncertainty," says Johnson. "The stories of The Styx inhabit that uncertain ground where nothing is fully on or off, alive or gone. What begins as fire ends as cinders and lingers softly afterward."