Win The Vasco Era's album Lucille

The Vasco Era burst onto the Australian music scene some five years ago in an arrival that was difficult to ignore. The noisy Apollo Bay natives presented a range of musical conundrums: a surf coast band fuelled by a furious racket; a three-piece that made as much noise as a whole festival; a band that seemingly ran alongside the other entrants in the new rock race and yet outran them all. The country sat up and took notice.

The band - vocalist and guitarist Sid O'Neil, brother and bassist Ted, and drummer Michael Fitzgerald - had a year or so to write the songs that would eventually form their second album's innards, though it was no working holiday.

The band took a determined step forward from the bare-bones raggedness of their debut and one way this expressed itself was through the (relatively) simple decision to increase the musical breadth of the arrangements.

Working closely with producer Scott Horscroft (Silverchair, The Presets, Sleepy Jackson), the band entered an intensive three-week recording session that would prove to test their collective mettle and expand their musical horizons.

The result is a record that is rich in atmosphere and depth of feeling; a true "headphones album" that takes the listener on a journey through the relationship of Sam and Lucille. Sid explains, ‘I didn't have any inspiration last year so I went to the Casino for four days and got drunk. I met a couple there which inspired the album. Their names aren't really Sam and Lucille but these are easy ones to put into songs.’

For your chance to win the new album Lucille, enter the competition below.