Garage Sale: ‘Any Day Now’

Naarm’s Garage Sale bring their new album Any Day Now to The Vanguard, with support from Twine and Sover.

As they carry on sailing down into the hearts of those fortunate enough to encounter them, Garage Sale swells and stirs their promise of eternal friendship forevermore. A letter in your mailbox, addressed from them to you, reads, “I’ll stay by your side, ‘cause that’s what good friends do.” So begins their ode to harmony ‘Punching Up’, the latest single from their upcoming full-length album, Any Day Now, being released on Other People Records, 15 August. 

Atop this little vessel lay a group of four friends, gazing out at their past works to distil exactly what makes it all work. Hard-panned guitars, delicate harmonies and pop intelligence are accompanied by the web of three lead vocalists, trading song for song throughout the record. The richness of their dynamic songwriting and snaking dual guitars mount an unforgettable foundation, infused with the breadth of history’s sharpest indie and emo subtleties. Lucid and honest, the band sets out on a new voyage up and through the rich Australian underground, stopping along the way to remind us of their commitment to hopefulness. 

Having just returned from their first tour of the United States (alongside Modern Color, Milly and Webbed Wing), and yet another dizzying waltz around Australia — performing sold-out landmark shows at Phoenix Central Park, Dark Mofo and an intimate shopfront in their home city of Naarm/Melbourne — the excitement around Garage Sale is genuinely palpable. 

This reputation has found them in support of international heavyweights Codeine, julie, Mannequin Pussy, Soccer Mommy and Narrow Head, to name only a few. Locally, they wave the flag of contemporary shoegaze revival, birthed in the US but reimagined in their own grasp. 

Any Day Now is an album with a heartbeat and a shimmering blue soul. Garage Sale have spent their youth refining their sound and taking it as far as they possibly can, with not one single loss of breath. This is what happens when you drop your guard.