High Ace

As 2020-21 left many Melbourne musicians playing alone in the burrow of the longest lockdown in the world, co-habitant musicians Alison Ferrier and Jeff Lang soon realised they had another option.

“Wanna make a record?” one of them stammered, and High Ace was born.

As a wife and husband team, the project is imbibed with a rare synergy and they quickly stumbled upon a unique and almost magical songwriting method: deciphering strange incantations played in reverse, and what the unusual, twisting cadences of those vocalisations were telling them. They imparted strange tales of rattling drums and poisoned hemlocks.

While singing in harmony in every song, their individual styles were given room to emerge - Lang’s disturbed folk wanderings, Ferrier’s bruising guitar riffs and solos - but this album of songs has seen them visit a place neither of them has been before.

Snowcap Menace is an astonishing record of contemporary musical storytelling empowered by a foundation of guitar-led folk and stringed global ethno-influences, exploring the collective musical powers of Alison and Jeff, yet still offering their individual flairs to flourish.

Vinyl and CDs available at highacemusic.com