Let Your Hair Down

Let Your Hair Down (FKA The Let Your Hair Down Girls) are a seven-piece instrumental cinematic soul group from Melbourne.

Emerging in 2014 as a side-project to iconic Melbourne soul band Saskwatch, the group served as a vehicle for the instrumental impulses of the band’s rhythm and horn sections. In the ensuing years, the group held down a reputation as Melbourne’s ‘pub soul’ staple, brazenly introducing cinematic soul and boogaloo sounds to the beer-drenched haunts that prop up Melbourne’s rock ‘n’ roll scene.

Over this time, Let Your Hair Down developed a sound touching on psych-funk, latin soul and soul-jazz, and carrying the identifiable sense of good-spirited mateship that comes with years spent wearing out the sticky carpet of Melbourne pubs.

As their reputation as in-demand session musicians grew, a hiatus was taken as the group’s instrumentalists were recruited to tour with the likes of Vance Joy and The Teskey Brothers.

After several years of touring life, Let Your Hair Down was revived with the addition of cinematic soul fellow travellers Hudson Whitlock (Karate Boogaloo) and Lachlan Stuckey (Surprise Chef), and a full-length LP of the band’s percussive instrumental soul committed to tape in Karate Boogaloo’s infamous attic studio. Entitled 'Waiting Room', the album is out September 2021 on College Of Knowledge Records.