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Sydney Morning Herald
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Sydney Morning Herald
‘One of our most honest records': How middle age is helping the Hilltop Hoods
No.2. Just south of INXS. It's 22 years since The Nosebleed Section made headlines about Aussie hip-hop coming of age. But one week before their ninth album – drumroll for the most anticipated local release of the year – that Hottest 100 Australian Songs result felt pretty good to the Hilltop Hoods. 'It's a little bit surreal to be up there with some of the songs that shaped my childhood, artists that I consider the biggest things ever,' says Dan Smith, aka Pressure, who began rhyming and recording with school friend Matt Lambert (Suffa) in the early '90s. Barry Francis (DJ Debris) joined them in '99. 'To be put in the same category with them' – Crowded House, Cold Chisel and Paul Kelly also hit the Top 10 in last week's Triple J poll – 'is an absolute honour,' he says. 'But I don't know what it is about that song. Time and place? Nostalgia? If I knew the answer, then we could make every song a Nosebleed Section.' He's joking. Moving forward, he knows, is the real test. So to Fall from the Light, dropping Friday, six years after the Adelaide trio's last album, The Great Expanse. That was the sixth No.1 for the group that smashed the outlying margins of hip-hop to occupy the top league of the Australian mainstream. Their arena tour of next February/March is nearly sold out. Expectations are high. Loading So what's it like? Older. Not as in tired – though Rage Against the Fatigue is a brilliant snapshot of socially induced insomnia – but in the emotionally literate sense. It's the sound of three guys deep into their 40s negotiating fame, grief, gratitude, depression, family, home and the road, with their usual linguistic precision and a more refined toolkit. 'I like to think it's one of our most honest records,' says Pressure. 'Hip-hop is so literal. We've matured in our songwriting and just as human beings as well. We're very comfortable in our own skin. I think that's one of the things that's helped us connect to our listeners over the years.'
The Age
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- The Age
‘One of our most honest records': How middle age is helping the Hilltop Hoods
No.2. Just south of INXS. It's 22 years since The Nosebleed Section made headlines about Aussie hip-hop coming of age. But one week before their ninth album – drumroll for the most anticipated local release of the year – that Hottest 100 Australian Songs result felt pretty good to the Hilltop Hoods. 'It's a little bit surreal to be up there with some of the songs that shaped my childhood, artists that I consider the biggest things ever,' says Dan Smith, aka Pressure, who began rhyming and recording with school friend Matt Lambert (Suffa) in the early '90s. Barry Francis (DJ Debris) joined them in '99. 'To be put in the same category with them' – Crowded House, Cold Chisel and Paul Kelly also hit the Top 10 in last week's Triple J poll – 'is an absolute honour,' he says. 'But I don't know what it is about that song. Time and place? Nostalgia? If I knew the answer, then we could make every song a Nosebleed Section.' He's joking. Moving forward, he knows, is the real test. So to Fall from the Light, dropping Friday, six years after the Adelaide trio's last album, The Great Expanse. That was the sixth No.1 for the group that smashed the outlying margins of hip-hop to occupy the top league of the Australian mainstream. Their arena tour of next February/March is nearly sold out. Expectations are high. Loading So what's it like? Older. Not as in tired – though Rage Against the Fatigue is a brilliant snapshot of socially induced insomnia – but in the emotionally literate sense. It's the sound of three guys deep into their 40s negotiating fame, grief, gratitude, depression, family, home and the road, with their usual linguistic precision and a more refined toolkit. 'I like to think it's one of our most honest records,' says Pressure. 'Hip-hop is so literal. We've matured in our songwriting and just as human beings as well. We're very comfortable in our own skin. I think that's one of the things that's helped us connect to our listeners over the years.'
