Quality of Life, by Quality Used Cars

Quality of Life

by Quality Used Cars

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Pressed at Zenith in Melbourne.

Reverse board jacket.
100 copies on white vinyl.
150 copies on black vinyl.

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SSR026: Limited Edition 12" Vinyl - White
Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Pressed at Zenith in Melbourne.

Reverse board jacket.
100 copies on white vinyl.
150 copies on black vinyl.

Includes unlimited streaming of Quality of Life via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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1.	If The Moon Were A Mirror 03:28	buy track
2.	Since The World's Been Turning Upside Down 04:05 video	buy track
3.	You Won't Find Good Friends Growing On Trees 03:24	buy track
4.	Me and Damon Drinking Beers at the Grandview Hotel 05:07	buy track
5.	None Of Us Have Much Time 01:39	buy track
6.	Fuel To Fire 04:04	buy track
7.	Slow News Day 02:24	buy track
8.	When My Ship Comes In 07:48	buy track
9.	Random Acts of Kindness 04:25	buy track
10.	I've Never Felt More Alive 03:47	buy track
11.	Ain't That The Way It Goes 03:26	buy track

about

Quality Used Cars is a project built around the idiosyncratic songwriting and warbling vocal of Francis Tait and brought to life by a band of hard-working familiar faces from within Narrm’s bubbling underground music communities.

In early 2021, Quality Used Cars released their debut album ‘Good Days/Bad Days’ through Spoilsport Records, putting full focus on Francis’ charismatic storytelling, over a backdrop that blends sunny Australiana with alt-country tenderness and scrappy garage-pop smarts.

Following their head-turning, stand out performance at Boogie 15 in April 2022 and developing a reliable, dedicated fan base,‘The Cars’ dropped the joyously evocative, narrative-driven ‘Me and Damon Drinking Beers at the Grandview Hotel’ and the more subtle, introspective second cut ‘I’ve Never Felt More Alive’, in anticipation of their second album ‘Quality of Life’, to be released mid 2023 through Spoilsport Records.

“I felt like Good Days/Bad Days got a little bit sad and in my own head, so I tried to practice a little more optimism when writing this new album. The whole album spirals around the idea of finding yourself in the world and being content with where and who you are, and this song feels like a centrepiece to all of that for me.” - Francis Tait

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“Over these past few years I think I’ve become so used to the paired-down Aussie sound that entering the fertile ground of ‘Good Days/Bad Days’ is like a cool drink of water after not realizing how parched you’ve become.” - Raven Sings The Blues

“Francis Tait has quietly established himself as one of Melbourne’s most uncanny songwriters.” - Beat Magazine

credits

released August 4, 2023

Francis Tait - Hannah McKittrick - Isobel Caldwell - Ben Leahy - Ryan Leahy

Recorded by Francis Tait at The Caryard
Mixed by Erik Scerba
Mastered by Guy Louis Faletolu
Taped by Winter McQuinn
Photography by James Whiting
Design and layout by James Devlin

Big additional thank yous to Emily Collins, Sam Lyons, James Lynch, Bucket Hansen, Blake Lica, Jim Rindfleish and Jamie-Lee Fanning.
This album was created on the land of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung People of the Kulin Nation and we would like to pay our respects to their elders past and present. Always was, always will be, Aboriginal land.

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