Australian Guitar

ON THE DAWN OF GREATNESS

In the words of Mark Seymour himself, “The songs on Slow Dawn are, in many ways, a search for home through a landscape of decay, love and memory. Much of my thinking takes place behind the wheel. All of the songs are triggered by travel, looking out at the land.”

On his fourth album leading Mark Seymour & The Undertow, the 63-year-old Victorian luminary – an icon of Australian rock due both to his solo work and as the frontman of Hunters & Collectors – looks further outward than ever before, finding inspiration on-the-fly and in unexpected places, rather than in dedicated notebooks or longwinded songwriting sessions.

We were lucky enough to get a glimpse of how the man works his

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