The longawaited fifth studio album from Augie March is now complete and will be released on October 3 this year. It is titled 'Havens Dumb' and will be released on Dark Satanic Records via Caroline, on all formats. It was produced by Augie March singersongwriter Glenn Richards, recorded in various studios in Tasmania and Victoria, and mostly mixed by Paul McKercher. After the band went 'on hiatus' in 2009, Glenn Richards opted to move from Melbourne to Hobart seeking lower rent and the chance to develop a working studio. This he did, building a soundproof bunker out of a small cave carved out of the wall of an underground garage in Goulburn Street, West Hobart. He began to write and demo songs for something, anything, next. Inside of a year he'd been given the choice by his negativelygeared landlord to either eliminate the abandoned sibling kittens now in his care or be evicted. In his new rental lodging further up the mountain there was a large garden and a bungalow, which was duly converted to a more ambitious studio and sometimes speakeasy. Communication amongst Glenn, Adam, Edmondo, Dave and Kiernan flickered to life. The idea of a new album was floated, one made in their own time, under their own steam an album that was just made until it was made.
