Skyscraper Stan
"Skyscraper Stan is a revelation" - The Sydney Morning Herald
"One part Hank Williams, two parts Nick Cave" - Sunday Star Times
Skyscraper Stan and his longtime touring band and collaborators the Commission Flats have generated a body of work that has attracted a loyal, and more recently global fanbase drawn to Stan’s easy lyrical style, inventive arrangements and deft genre twists and turns.
With the Sydney Morning Herald calling him “a revelation,” his two previous albums including 2015’s Last Year’s Tune and 2019’s Golden Boy, and between them a live solo album in 2017 Live at Some Velvet Morning, shone a light on Stan’s ability to write concise and accessible narratives in a timeless style, suggesting a writer steeped in the traditions of the classics but looking to refresh that sound for the modern era. His global reach has been extended by the songs “I Fell Over” and “Always Thinking of You” and “21st Century Lullaby” featuring in the hit TV show Colin From Accounts.
The third Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats studio album “Those Were Days” was released in February 2025 through Cheersquad Records, debuting at #1 on the Aria Australian Country chart.
Talk to me is the lead single from the new album Those Were Days, out now through Cheersquad Records and Tapes. The video was filmed at Headgap studios during the album sessions.
Strange Things Happen is the latest single from Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats. A hooky heart-ache song, with a bouncing feel somewhere between soul and 60s rock. Download the press release here.
PREss
“Woodhouse specialises in sad songs that make you feel good, heavy on cunning wordplay, rattling snare and twangy guitars”
- Stuff
“Try to imagine Stan Ridgeway, Daniel Romano, Nick Cave and Otis Redding working together in a band”
- Spill Magazine
“His second studio album sees the poetic narrator visit a fractured society from the fringes. His vocals stride variously, befitting the light or shade of the contrasting ‘volumes’”
- Forte Magazine
“There’s still a lot of “the road” in his storytelling, but Woodhouse has definitely moved on from his rambling, swag-sleeping days, and his music is all the better for it”
- New Zealand Listener
“…his explicit and selective detail forms distinct landscapes into which the listener is readily drawn, and carried away by”
- New Zealand Musician Magazine
"...inspiration, talent and a singular musical vision. ‘Last Year’s Tune’ is a tremendously rewarding listen"
- New Zealand Musician Magazine
"Just as quickly as you think you have Skyscraper Stan & the Commission Flats pinned down, the sheet is pulled out from under you"
- Forte Magazine
"... this is an album that delivers on every level it’s possible to deliver on; you need to hear it."
- No Depression
Let Me Be Frank With You is the first single from the upcoming Skyscraper Stan and the Commission Flats’ third album. Through the metaphor of small town gossip it discusses the phenomenon of working-class people voting for conservative politicians.
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info@skyscraperstan.com.au