Andrew McCubbin
Melbourne’s Andrew McCubbin is an internationally recognised producer, songwriter, singer and multi-instrumentalist whose work has always moved between worlds — between Melbourne and Europe, between songwriter and producer, and between the atmospheric and the visceral.
Over a career spanning six studio albums, McCubbin has built a body of work shaped by collaboration, touring and a restless musical curiosity. His music has received Single of the Week and Single of the Year honours for songs including The Fog Song, The Last Breeze and Blue, while albums including Where Once There Was a Fire, Dead Pilot and Hope Addicts have received Album of the Week honours. Where Once There Was a Fire was also named Album of the Year.
McCubbin’s musical world has always extended well beyond Melbourne, built through years of touring, collaboration and friendship with artists from Australia, the UK, Europe and the US. He has supported and performed alongside Adrian Belew (David Bowie), The Creatures (UK), M. Ward (USA), Micah P. Hinson (USA), Morphine (USA), The Cruel Sea, The Underground Lovers, Died Pretty, Hugo Race, Mick Harvey, Conway Savage (The Bad Seeds) and Roland S. Howard.
That Melbourne–Europe connection continues to shape McCubbin’s work. Most recently, he toured Europe with guitarist Henry Hugo, supporting and performing alongside Mick Harvey (Bad Seeds).
McCubbin’s sixth studio album, Light Neck Speed, is forthcoming.
The first single, Run All Night, was a dark, atmospheric song about escape. The recently released second single, Through Your Hoop, moves deeper into the darkness — a heavier, more psychologically charged song about endurance and continuing forward when the way through isn’t clear.
“Run All Night could be the best song he has ever recorded. It’s very moody and atmospheric rock and roll, with a pastoral sound similar to Died Pretty. Run All Night should be on a film soundtrack someday.”
— CBD News
McCubbin’s previous album, Where Once There Was a Fire, spawned the single Wait Here for the Sun, whose accompanying music video was selected for eight film festivals around the world, including Barcelona’s Around International Film Festival, Belgium’s Move Me Festival and the International Music Video Underground in Paris.
Album Reviews
“Outstanding...truly affecting”
4 stars - Rolling Stone
4 stars - The Age (EG)
Album of the Year "I swear you feel rather than hear. I don’t think anyone’s really achieved this before."
Robert Brokenmouth i-94
“You’d be easily convinced he was actually some hidden treasure from London’s rich musical backdrop.”
4.5 Stars Time Out Magazine
“The sonic equivalent of endless longing”
Editor Download.com (U.S.A.)
“A fantastic, majestic and a total marvel of a record."
Sonic Wave Magazine (Spain)
“Beautiful”
RRR’s Trip Magazine
Live Reviews
Top 10 Shows of the Year "On the one hand it’s achingly beautiful and moving, on the other it’s quite profoundly uplifting"
Robert Brokenmouth i.94
"When the stillness breaks, McCubbin and his band drench the room with a ferocity of the storms we were promised but arguably never got the day before.
Patrick Emery - Beat Magazine
"a truly spellbinding performance"
Hurb Jephasun - The Music