The Rubens, Olivia Rodrigo Rule Australia’s Charts Billboard 2/22/2021 The Rubens
The Rubens have ruled triple j’s Hottest 100, but they’ve never led their homeland’s albums chart…until now.
The alternative rock outfit debut at No. 1 on the ARIA Albums Chart with
0202.
It’s the fourth studio album from the Menangle, New South Wales band and the fourth Australian No. 1 album on the ARIA Charts in 2021.
0202 features the ARIA Award-nominated single “Live In Life,” and it follows the band’s self-titled debut album (No. 3 in 2012),
Hoops (No. 2 in 2015) and
Lo La Ru (No. 3 in 2018).
“It’s an incredible feat ten years into a career,” comments ARIA CEO Annabelle Herd, “and I look forward to seeing them continue to knock down more milestones into the next ten and beyond. I also want to congratulate everyone in The Rubens team, Ivy League Records and Mushroom.”
Image by Nick Green
Words by Tyler Richardson
Everything Is Tenuous saw the beloved Tasmanian band self record an album for the first time ever.
It’s the same old story we’ve heard all year, but COVID changed a bunch of stuff for us. We made a few songs for this record in Melbourne with our engineer Andrei, then when we couldn’t travel we kind of figured out we could make this record at home, with Andrei mixing from Melbourne.
In this process we learnt a hell of a lot – we’d done a bunch of home demo stuff in the past, but this was the real deal. Here’s five lessons we learned from self-recording an album for the first time, written by me, Tyler Richardson.