It began modestly enough. Isabella Manfredi, Jack Moffitt and Tom Champion met as students at the Australian Institute of Music in Sydney, and they started playing music together. "We were playing bad covers of classic bands," Manfredi recalls. "Then we decided to be in a band and dropped out."

Rounding out the lineup with Gideon Benson and Luke Davison, the Preatures got a couple of EPs under their belts before releasing their first full-length album, Blue Planet Eyes, in September 2014. The album debuted at number four in the Australian charts. The single, "Is This How You Feel?", earned The Preatures Australia's coveted Vanda & Young Songwriting Award — and saw the Preatures get inducted into The Current's Chart Show Hall of Fame.

After playing a lively show at the Triple Rock Social Club in Minneapolis, the Preatures stopped by The Current studio to play some songs off Blue Planet Eyes and to talk with Steve Seel.

Listen to the full interview to hear about how the Preatures will be opening for the Rolling Stones' Australian tour; about the competitive Sydney music scene; about the band's approach to songwriting; and about how the band's name was decided.

Songs Performed

"Is This How You Feel?"
"Somebody's Talking"
"Cruel"
All songs off the album, Blue Planet Eyes, distributed in the U.S. on Harvest Records.

Hosted by Steve Seel
Produced by Jade
Engineered by Michael DeMark
Web feature by Luke Taylor

Related

• The Chart Show Hall of Fame
• The Preatures - official site