Music and film have been inseparable since the early days of the latter’s existence, and nothing has the power to elevate a movie’s impact quite like a powerful soundtrack. But in the case of Thornhill’s ambitious new record Heroine, the opposite is true – it’s a conceptual alt-rock epic that draws its biggest cues from Hollywood, with each track framed as a spiritual score for one of the many classic films and TV shows the band’s members were obsessed with in its genesis.
‘Arkangel’, for example, recalls the moody and melodramatic flair of ‘90s staples like and , while ‘Casanova’ plucks its aesthetic from the seminal of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Twined around Thornhill’s smoky and evocative slate of ‘coretwinged alt-rock – building – to further establish the Melbourne maestros as shoe-ins for the next generation of stadium-packing legendaries.
