Thirsty for Lime Cordiale
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Thirsty for Lime Cordiale

Fresh off a plane from sunny Europe where they provided some serious wanderlust envy with their Instagrammable summer glows and Spanish street performances, Sydney siblings, Lime Cordiale, touch back down in Australia preparing for their high-demand ‘Robbery’ AU and NZ tour, festival season, and the release of a new single on 20 September.

“It’s got a bit more of a Motown, 60’s feel to it instrumentally,” frontman Oli Leimbach teases.
The newbie will appear on their sophomore album excepted out at the end of the year alongside banger, ‘Inappropriate Behaviour’, with Leimbach promising it will be a tasting platter of sound. This is not new for Lime Cordiale who have notoriously been known for their mixtapes of genre-bending songs. Their signature sound is that they don’t subscribe to piggybank slotting of music categorisation.

“Our stuff has always been all over the place. We write songs in different environments and different moods and it doesn’t really fit into the same sounds like other bands do. We’ve been criticised for that in the industry over some time like, ‘we don’t really know where you sit’, ‘you need to have a sound’, ‘people need to know what that Lime Cordiale sound is’ but I think after a while, at the end of the day it’s just the two of us creating the music and it sort of just sits into our sound.”

He continues, “From ‘Dirt Cheap’ to Inappropriate Behaviour’ to this new one we’ve got out to ‘Money’; they’re all pretty different songs but I think that you can still sort of feel like it’s us. It doesn’t feel like different bands, just different songs. I feel like as a tip to other bands to not really worry about that because you end up going down the same road sonically anyway. I think people fuck around with sounds more as the band progresses.”

A major change on this upcoming album is the inclusion of their current touring band. Oli and Louis Leimbach have operated as a duo from their inception in 2011, hiring sessions musicians to accompany them in the recording process and on the road, however, their current touring line-up of three years look as though they are here to stay.

“Well, this is the first time that we’ve had the touring band play on the recording of this new album that we’ve got coming out and these new songs that we’ve released. We went up to a farm to a barn and all just recorded together and that was a really good experience,” says Leimbach. “But it was awesome having those guys up there because now with them at the recording process they’re not just listening to the record and trying to do that on a live stage, they were actually there recording it so the live show will benefit from that.”

As part of their Robbery tour, the full outfit will be jumping up on the Spilt Milk stage in Canberra and, the welcome addition to the expanding festival, Ballarat where they will appear alongside a plethora of talent including Allday, Chvrches, Dune Rats, G Flip, Juice Wrld, and, AFL Grand Final entertainment, Tones and I.

“We played a show down in Canberra I think two years ago and all of these people were like ‘are you going to Spilt Milk’ and we had no idea what that was. It’s a pretty strange name for a festival [laughs] so two years later to be playing it! It sounds huge and also to be doing the one down in Ballarat as well; it’s awesome, mad line-up!”

Catch Lime Cordiale at Spilt Milk in Ballarat on Saturday, 30 November; Corner Hotel, Melbourne – October 30 & 31, November 1 & December 1; & Falls Festival in Lorne from December 28-31. Spilt Milk is sold-out, but the resale facility is now open.

Written by Tammy Walters