Victoria is a State of Mind Why the album title? Well, firstly, forget what you think it means. Listen to the word ‘Victoria’. It can sound like a destination that is unattainable – a lofty, ambitious, top-of-the-mountain kind of place; it can sound like an era – an important time where great leaps forward are made; it can sound like the name screamed at the end of rousing speeches on battlefields. So many meanings and yet this album can fit into just about any of those – recording an album can seem like an uphill struggle at times with the end unreachable; it is such an epic time where huge creative steps can be taken; and it can seem like such a fight along the way but in the end battle is won and you feel victorious and you’re ready to let everyone know about it – think Victoria! How was the album created? Proving the title isn’t what it seems – this album is most definitely a nationwide creation. The album was recorded in Melbourne at Hothouse by Craig Harnath and Finn Keane, Congregation Studios by Michael Miller and Final Sound by Paul Ruske; mixed in Perth at Debaser Studios by Andy Lawson (Little Birdy, Eskimo Joe & End of Fashion) and Joel Quartermain (Eskimo Joe); and mastered in Sydney at Benchmark Mastering by Don Bartley. What’s on the album? Thirteen tracks inspired by life – friends, films, documentaries, books, music, news and, of course, personal experience. Songwriters, Forrestal, Kealley, and Miller, express themselves with beauty and intensity, bringing light and shade, drama and warmth, sadness and joy to this lush musical canvas. What’s been said about Fourth Floor Collapse? "Fourth Floor Collapse write intelligent and emotionally potent music. 
The soundscapes they explore can be both impossibly massive and 
arrestingly personal". Wally De Backer (aka Gotye) "Another local act about to blow our minds" Kathy McCabe, The Daily Telegraph “FFC's dramatic rock, with its flaunting of high emotion, thickly piled-on sounds and theatrical flashes, is in its moment” Bernard Zuel, Sydney Morning Herald "Paralysingly beautiful” Ross Clelland, Drum Media "Straight Up – Fourth Floor Collapse are one of the most amazing bands in the country" Sabian Wilde, Beat Magazine