Bored Nothing

Melbourne, Australia native Fergus Miller began releasing songs in 2010 as Splintered Oar. His lo-fi, bedroom folk sound conjured up a more experimental Elliott Smith. Further EPs followed in 2011, as did an EP as Mexico, before Miller bought a four-track recorder and changed his project's name to Bored Nothing. He adopted a guitar-heavy sound that brought to mind noise bands like Sonic Youth and power poppers like Teenage Fanclub, and mixed in some jangle pop and shoegaze influences. Miller issued a flood of songs, both on Bandcamp and on CD-Rs. He also put out a homemade cassette of the first three EPs, and in mid-2012, rounded up a band for performances. That November, Miller released Bored Nothing on Spunk. ~ Tim Sendra