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Always attempting to find that sweet spot between head and heart, Melbourne via Perth quintet Split Seconds return with Halfway There- another entry in their ever expanding canon of smart-pop nuggets. Following on from the success of their much vaunted debut album You'll Turn Into Me, the boys have weathered a change in scenery and appeared on the other side with a signature study in the frivolity of modern love set to a jaunty backbeat that tips it's hat to the likes of Blur and Mystery Jets, while still maintaining Split Seconds' indefinable sense of musical identity. Recorded by in-demand producer Steve Schram (San Cisco, Loon Lake, Eagle And The Worm) the morning after lead singer Sean Pollard broke his wrist in three places in a biking accident, Halfway There features guest vocals from fast rising songstress Kathryn Rollins, playing a sort of Dianne Keaton to Pollard's Woody Allen. The two banter back and forth, eventually uniting and admitting the inescapable fact: "we knew