Australian Jordie Lane is now to be found in Nashville, a town that informs at least part of the latest single to be taken from his upcoming release ‘Tropical Depression‘ a rather coolly bouncing song, with a nice turn in sly putdowns. Although Jordie Lane has hinted that the object of the song may be as much internal as external, as he told Americana UK: “Long story short, Biscuit House is about ‘Imposter Syndrome’. Something so many people feel at some point in their life, but especially creatives in the arts. We’re constantly evolving and trying new things, but ever questioning ourselves for better and (mainly) worse. I personally have always dreamed of the wide open spaces, and being a cowboy, an outlaw. It couldn’t be further from the truth, cause I ain’t none of that! I’m a city kid, with an over imaginative mind.”
‘Biscuit House‘ is a song that has been knocking around for the best part of a decade, with Jordie Lane able to pinpoint pretty accurately when the germ of the idea floated into sight, as he explained to us: “‘Biscuit House’ is one of those long evolving songs. It started initially as an idea I had with co-writer and vocal producer Clare Reynolds, when we were visiting Nashville way back in 2017. We had breakfast at this little diner on Gallatin Rd called the Nashville Biscuit House. For those unacquainted with what a a biscuit means in America, it more or less could be the distant cousin of what the British and Australians call a Scone. So the night before we had been at this bar, and I could hear this loud obnoxious voice rising above everyone else touting about how he was doing so much cool stuff in Nashville and really trying to get everybody’s attention. That person had an Aussie accent, ha ha!. It’s hilarious how when you are in a foreign country you can sometimes overcompensate when trying to feel comfortable, and I notice people try to prove themselves too much. That was the genesis of this song, and what led into the ideas of Imposter syndrome being at the heart of it.
This song, like the album ‘Tropical Depression‘ was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with Grammy nominated producer, engineer and instrumentalist Jon Estes (Kacey Musgraves, Dolly Parton, Rodney Crowell), mixed by famed engineer Noah Georgeson (The Strokes, Devandra Banhart, Marlon Williams) and mastered by Juno Award winning Phillip Shaw Bova (Feist, Father John Misty, Angel Olsen, Bahamas).
