The Apartments, an Australian chamber pop group with echoes of Frenchman Serge Gainsbourg as well as Leonard Cohen and post-punk, were created around Peter Milton Walsh as lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter in Brisbane in October 1978.
Within a year, they had broken up. Walsh also played in The Go-Betweens for a couple of weeks in November/December 1978. Once The Apartments had broken up they released their first EP "Return of the Hypnotist."
Walsh then created Out of Nowhere, playing with them from 1981-1982, then left Australia to live in New York.
A year later, Ed Kuepper, in London and starting a new Laughing Clowns asked Walsh to join the Clowns for English, European and Australian tours which followed, as well as an album "Law of Nature".
In 1984, Peter Milton Walsh began a new Apartments, then left for England on a contract with Rough Trade Records in 1985.
In London he started a European Apartments that included English drummer, Nick Allum, Welsh piano player Judy Anderson, and German bass player Jürgen Hobbs.
Peter released his first Lp in 1985, The Evening Visits. It was released in the Apartments' home country in 1985, and though it did only moderately well there, the album became a cult classic in France. Seven years after the debut, Drift followed with similar exposure, causing a French label to sign the group for third album A Life Full of Farewells.
After re-releasing the first two LPs, plus Fête Foraine (which featured acoustic renditions of previous songs), the Apartments even gained American release on Twin/Tone Records. Their fourth proper album, Apart, was released in 2000They split some time after that.
- stripedsunlight/All Music Guide
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