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    Humble, quiet, introspective. All could apply to Juan Alban, the softly spoken but gifted frontman and principal songwriter for Ballarat’s favourite sons Epicure. The singer isn’t saying directly what prompted the theme of his band’s latest album Postcards From A Ghost. Suffice to say, it’s personal. “It’s not really something I would like to talk about now…” He trails off. “I guess ‘heartbreak’ kind of covers it.” He goes on. “Towards the end of Main Street, (Epicure’s last album) I was going through a hard time personally, and that’s when I wrote some of the earlier songs like Landslide and How This Will End. I was kind of conceiving the album then. It’s not strictly a concept album, but lyrically I’ve tried to keep it all tied-in together. “A lot of the lyrics are written from the perspective of a character who, I guess, had something traumatic happen to them and just doesn’t bounce back from it the way people probably do when they are young. This character is getting older, and a bit more slighted about things. “I think it’s our angriest record,” asserts Juan. “The other albums might be sadder sounding compared with this, but there’s definitely a lot of anger in this one. Lyrically, anyway. I think it’s the most sinister and darkest thing we’ve done. But it’s also our best sounding album.” Hence the title of Epicure’s fifth album, Postcards From A Ghost. “I suppose it’s about a character who’s left feeling like a ghost. As though they were invisible, see-through, or scarred in some way. If you send somebody a postcard, then it sort of tells them where you’ve been. I guess, this album is that postcard, and I like how the title conveyed that.”
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