Stereo Embers The Podcast 0164: Peter Milton Walsh (The Apartments)

“In And Out Of The Light”

Peter Milton Walsh of the Apartments is the Dean of the darkness and the light. Like an indie rock Virgil, in his work the Brisbane-born
singer/songwriter expertly guides us through the roughest waters and brings us back to solid ground. It’s hard to think of anyone else
who’s oeuvre’ is so devastatingly perfect. A songwriter of poetic precision, spellbinding stillness and wrenching balladry, Walsh
is practically peerless. His band’s new album In And Out Of The Light is mesmerizing, heartbreaking and unreasonably beautiful. After the band broke up, Walsh played in the Go-Betweens and Ed Kuepper’s Laughing Clowns before getting the second incarnation of the Apartments going. In this conversation the genial Walsh talks to Alex about how his recording process has changed, the creative and editorial synergy of Robert Forster and Grant McLennan,the tricky sequencing of the new album and what becomes of beauty in the physical world…