Full Flower Moon Band 'Megaflower'

The big day has finally arrived for beloved botanical Brisbane beasts Full Flower Moon Band (FFMB), with the release of their third studio album Megaflower via Dirty Power Studios (AU/NZ)
and Silver Arrow (rest of world). LISTEN HERE.

It arrives nearly three years after their acclaimed 2021 effort Diesel Forever, which launched the burgeoning project onto theatre and festival stages across the country. While it was one of the year's most acclaimed Australian rock albums, only one thing stopped Diesel Forever from being FFMB's best record: The fact that figurehead and bandleader Kate “Babyshakes” Dillon knew she hadn't written that yet.

“I could have easily not challenged myself, but I made a point of going through a real metamorphosis with every song,” says Dillon on the creation of Megaflower. “For the first time, I didn't have a grand concept going into making an album – I just had a point to prove.” That point? FFMB – and there's an entire botanical garden of ideas growing out of the dirt. Whether it's the trippy haze of Illegal Things, the jangly slow-dance of Man Hands or the reverberating balladry of Kiss Him Goodbye, Megaflower portrays a band in a constantly-shifting state. This was entirely by design of Dillon, who sees the album as an experiment in surrealism after an album that indulged in the hardest and heaviest of rock hedonism. “I'm trying to subvert everyone's expectations,” she says. “They've been heavier than I could have anticipated, and there's a lot of pressure that comes with them. The cliff-edge is omnipresent, and it's been up to me to ignore it and make an album with real twists and turns to it. I ended up having a lot of fun with it.”