Skyscraper Stan and The Commission – Those Were The Days

Aotearoa/New Zealand-born and Australia-based Skyscraper Stan and his longtime touring band and collaborators the Commission Flats have generated a body of work that has attracted a loyal, and more recently global fanbase drawn to Stan’s easy lyrical style, inventive arrangements and deft genre twists and turns – from folk and country to indie rock and consummate soul – all key elements across the diverse new album.

Written through the pandemic, and between the cities of Ballarat and Naarm Melbourne, Stan found himself reminiscing a lot about places, people and the state of the world as he put pen to paper. The song ‘Those Were Days’, that gives the album its name, is a lament for the lost hedonism of one’s early 20s living in share houses in Fitzroy and Collingwood, and as such, it ties-in perfectly with the general nostalgic feel of much of the album.