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Thin Aspiration

by Heir To The Squandered Millions

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Cheersquad Records & Tapes are proud to present "Thin Aspiration", the debut single by Melbourne's newest "tight, compact" power pop band Heir To The Squandered Millions, taken from the band's soon to be announced debut album.

Heir To The Squandered Millions is the current project of Ross McLennan, formally of '90s Australian power-pop outfit and Triple J faves Snout.

After leading Snout from 1991 to 2002, Ross undertook a side project, Meuscram, with his younger brother, Lindsay (a.k.a. Link Meanie of the Meanies), delivering a lo-fi self-titled album in 1995.

Subsequent to that, McLennan has issued four solo albums, Hits from the Brittle Building (February 2004), Sympathy for the New World (February 2008), The Night's Deeds Are Vapour (2013) and All the Colours Print Can Manage (October 2017). Sympathy for the New World was short-listed for the Australian Music Prize for 2008.

Heir To The Squandered Millions sees McLennan return to the liberating limits of guitar pop. It’s great fun.

lyrics

I hear the crying of one million souls
they cast a cloud on my wedding plans
I can’t believe they leave these little holes
with so much else taken from my hands
with any luck
with luck we’ll be left behind
left for new species to find
hidden from silver wings in the sky
their vapour trails
they may cut the blue beyond
but their rockets run on such thin aspiration

the grey machine you’ve seen outside my door
it’s shapes are drawn by a sleeping hand
they could no more adore wet little eyes
than paint a smile on a drowning man
with any luck
with luck we’ll be left behind
left for new species to find
hidden from silver wings in the sky
their vapour trails
they may cut the blue beyond
but their rockets run on such thin aspiration

I hear the crying of one million souls
they cast a cloud on my wedding plans
I can’t believe they leave these little holes
with so much else taken from my hands
with any luck
with luck we’ll be left behind
left for new species to find
hidden from silver wings in the sky
their vapour trails
they may cut the blue beyond
but their rockets run on such thin aspiration
so inane
so inane
so inane

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released March 27, 2026
Words & music by Ross McLennan

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Cheersquad Records & Tapes Melbourne, Australia

Wally “Meanie” Kempton took the plunge in 2018 and launched his record label Cheersquad Records & Tapes. Since then he has released new material from acts such as The Meanies, The Hard-Ons, Chris Wilson, Phil Jamieson, Seasick Steve, Wanita, Minibikes, The Rinehearts, Immigrant Union and T. Wilds, along with limited edition vinyl of older material from Snout, Even and The Glory Box and more. ... more

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