Add one part Andrew Millist to four parts Thundamentals and things are about to get volatile.

Jun 23 2011

When Thundamentals approached Andrew to do the album artwork for their upcoming album, FOREVERLUTION, they needed him to visually capture what they’d been through since the launch of the first album, Sleeping On Your Style. When you compare the sentiments of Thundamentals first and second titles you can appreciate that they place an emphasis on being progressive. They seem to hold their aims just out of reach, constantly challenging themselves not to fall into a regressive groove.

We couldn’t think of a better personality than Andrew Millist to execute this visually for the group. We’ve known him nine months and not once has he stepped down from a challenge. Not once has he let us down. You get the feeling that inside Andrew there is a balcony and from that balcony the most belligerent old art critics heckle him until he produces a work that he can hold up with well deserved pride.

Apply all that to Andrew’s favourite subject matter and you have the expressive equivalent to dropping a match on gasoline, the artworks below. Andrew loves robots and machinery. He has served in the military and he has an insatiable appetite for riding and designing motorbikes. Even from an early age Andrew was surrounded by machinery. Growing up watching his father fly light aircraft over Brisbane’s crops.

“It was explained [to me] that this album was to be about getting on with the job once you’ve decided to stop sleeping on your style, so I thought about the journey the young boy character from the first album’s cover was about to embark on, and how that would change him. Thundamentals was familiar with my robotic and graffiti influenced style, and given the nature of the brief, there was no doubt from the beginning that this would have a good helping of those elements. Ultimately then, the major challenge was visualizing and capturing the most dramatic moments from the story as it played in my head, then making them convey the overall intensity of the metaphor for change and experience in this kind of still montage.”

“New Album FOREVERLUTION out July 29th”.

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