Sugar Fed Leopards - Love. Be in It. (2024) Hi-Res

Sugar Fed Leopards is celebrating ten years of making music together, which is why they dedicate their latest album, ‘Love. Be In It.’, to all the audiences and venues that have joined them on their love quest over the past decade or so.

The album is an ode to the spirit of friendship, to music and to nightlife, as well as 'love' as a verb and a way of living shared energy. Could there be any better reason to make an album?

Ultimately, ‘Love. Be In It’ is an invitation, urging everyone to find the mood, get into it, get off the couch, come to the show and be in the music. It is also a command, a direct reference to the ‘Life. Be in it’ government fitness campaign from the 80s, inspiring people to get love-fit through real connection and being moved by music.

The reference also makes its way into the music, with a healthy dose of 80s sounds and feels throughout. The love story starts right from the first track 'T.Y.O.T. (Take You Out Tonight)', dedicated to loose nights with your best friends.

The steamy nights on the dance floor with 'Old Hand, New Glove', the absurd fun of 'Warm Toddy', the shared 'Beach Dreams' and the chugging Bee Gee-esque, disco-infused ‘Need You Now’ have all come together to form a slick record, while still retaining the scraggly rock n roll of the bands’ live shows.

Nick Herrera, Lachlan Carrick and Paul Maybury were brought in on mixing duties to make the album their most polished piece of work yet.