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After two European tours, a deleted album, and a year spent searching for the meaning of two people making music while living on opposite sides of the world - childhood friends Ryan Nicolussi and Alister Hill realised that as simple as it sounds, Saint-Léon is about friendship. A creative lifeline that has pulled them out of, frankly, some drowning shit experienced between the highs, lows and traumas of the past few years, the duo found their sound by accident when they discovered ‘The Daniel Johns Voice’ - a hushed falsetto Ryan uses when forced to sing as quietly as possible. Reflecting on the influence that the Silverchair front-man had on them as teens, the duo embarked on making simple pop songs with nothing to hide behind - direct, emotional, and putting it all on the line without a care for the coolness rotisserie in the outside world. Right now Ryan is in London, Alister is in Sydney, and their studio is in France ~ hence where their band name came from ~ who knows how