In an historic world first, Yugambeh/Kombumerri/Gold Coast-based six-piece Selve have announced that their forthcoming debut album Breaking Into Heaven (out September 12), is the first full-length album to be recorded at the legendary Abbey Road studios by an Aboriginal artist.

Led Jabirr Jabirr man Loki Liddle, Selve are a six-piece alt rock band. The band has achieved an incredible amount in the past year alone, having toured Australia in their 12-show Red Desert Dream Tour, the EU/UK in their World Wide Wave Tour and spending three months across Broome, France and London writing + recording 'Breaking Into Heaven'.

Breaking Into Heaven is a powerful testament of First Nations stories, music and culture breaking into spaces that have traditionally been reserved for the select few.

Breaking Into Heaven is a high-theatre showcase of raucous punk/post-punk and subversive rock, tender indie-pop, winking new-wave/psychedelic and beyond, all tied together with rebellion and compassion.The announcement comes alongside the album's title track and video.

'Breaking Into Heaven' is "about breaking in and subverting the centres of power that have been used to author our fates en masse, stealing the pen back from the stealer and sprawling a First Nations story and future across the heavens above," said Liddle.

Breaking Into Heaven was self-produced by the band's Scott French with previous collaborator film & TV composer Simon Benesch (of French techno-rock band FAIRE), recorded with Abbey Road studio engineer Thomas Briggs (Little Simz, Sam Fender, Kojey Radical), and mastered by Matt Colton (Fontaines D.C., The Cure, Foals).

The single lands alongside a cinematic video co-directed by Liddle and another long-time collaborator Josh Tate (Kate Miller-Heidke & Jaguar Jonze, Sycco, Mia Wray) -- inspired by films like Asteroid City and 2001: A Space Odyssey, shot in one continuous drone shot at the Scenic Rim Aerodrome in Kooralbyn that sees "Blakfullas breaking into heaven via propeller plane", featuring First Nations dance company Karul Projects and legendary artist and freedom fighter Uncle Richard Bell.

The Breaking Into Heaven album is heavily anchored and inspired by Nina Simone's words that "'The people who built their heaven on your land, are telling you that yours is in the sky" - a powerful testament of First Nations stories, music and culture breaking into the spaces that have been stolen or denied to them and traditionally reserved for the select few.

The historic journey that the 13 songs on Breaking Into Heaven have taken, Liddle says, "gave the record its soul - taking the embers of songs sparked on my Jabirr Jabirr Country and recording that at Abbey Road, this amazing ideal and root of Rock N Roll mythology: a reclamation, reimaging and subversion of that ideal through an inspired First Nations lens has taken place".

Penned over the course of a 3-stage residency between Broome, France and London, culminating in recording at Abbey Road's most infamous studio in the world - studio 3, the same that birthed Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon - the first demos came from inspiration trips to Liddle's Jabirr Jabirr Country, with Liddle and Bowden in the Broome studio of Loki's Elder Uncle Wayne Barker, where they had "extensive yarns" with the lead mentor providing cultural guidance, insight and musical kowledge, also with Elder Aunty Patricia Torres, providing the beating heart the album would grow from.

Finessing the songs as a whole band via a 6-week residency at Midnight Special Records in France's Noyen-sur-seine with Benesch, the band put in long hours producing new demos daily, living in a farm barn cottage across from the studio; before spending two full weeks preparing and recording in Abbey Road.

Liddle shared the excitement surrounding the albums release and the true meaning behind its poetic and personal conception.

"Breaking Into Heaven is a glass brick shimmering with the light of the sun. A brick that has landed in your living room - as a gift, not as a threat. The embers of a project sparked on Jabirr Jabirr Country was carried across seas and lands and recorded in Abbey Road, breaking down doors to tell a First Nations story through the platform of the most notorious music studio on the planet," he said.

"Despite the awe of it all, I was gripped every day with the knowledge that I was only there because of those who have come before me, that I was sent there by my ancestors and my community because something bigger than myself was happening, and that my job was to devote myself to the music & story - and not get in its way so that it could communicate itself."

"Thomas (Briggs, engineer) took us on a tour - casually pointing out pianos used by The Beatles on major records, the desk Dark Side of The Moon was recorded on and all such ridiculous things. The time we spent in Studio 3 was an unbelievable dream; everyone was nerding out and having a field day: sending things up to the plate reverb in the roof, running signals through ancient pre-amps and singing into microphones worth more than everyone's HECS debts.

"Every member of the band was in peak form, everything you might imagine recording at Abbey Road to be like - it was like that. For Scott French (bassist and producer) it was like watching someone go from fighter pilot to the driver of an interstellar mothership. With the help of Thomas Briggs and Simon Benesch, he somehow made operating the most infamous studio in the world look easy, and was totally in his element."

Completing two massive tours in support of their debut album Red Desert Dream and the World Wide Wave EP last year - nationally and in the EU/UK - Selve have taken their energetic live presence to SXSW Sydney, BIGSOUND, Woodford Folk Festival, BLAK DAY OUT, Springtime Festival, Brisbane Festival, Horizon Festival, Valley Fiesta and set for many more performances after the Breaking Into Heaven album release in September.

This project has been supported by the Queensland and Australian governments through Arts Queensland and Creative Australia.

Selve - Breaking Into Heaven is out independently on Friday the 12th of September.

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