Divide&Dissolve//JFDR//PeakTwins//SleepD//SuiZhen//Kandere//Ela



Line-up

Event details

Smooch Records are proud to present a welcome to spring party, Since we like spring and all. Live for spring. SMOOCH INTO SPRING! Hence this generous evening of bold and experimental artists and rosé. So excited for this bill so many wonderful acts. Have a read/listen!

Divide and Dissolve are a Texas-Geelong duo and have one solid ambition; to decolonize heavy metal with their bone-crushing doom. http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/30/divide-and-dissolve-metal-australia-interview

JFDR is the Björk-approved solo endeavour of Iceland's Jófríður Ákadóttir. Minimalist soundscapes paired with Jófríður's voice, which has a strength that’s made to seem fragile with its vibrato, like a solid pane of glass vibrating just enough not to shatter. https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/03/icelands-jfdr-premieres-beautiful-debut-album-brazil-stream/

PEAK TWINS. Suave soul hunk rockers. Their first live show in almost 4 years. https://peaktwins.bandcamp.com/

Rebecca Sui Zhen, fresh back from the Sydney Opera House. Japanese lovers rock, 80s electro-bossanova and dubby-lounge pop. www.suizhen.com.au/

Ela Stiles. Unsettling, gothic dance-pop anthems. https://paradisedaily.bandcamp.com/album/molten-metal-lp

Kandere is Wahe Kavara and Lakyn Tarai. Avant-garde liquidised trap. https://noisey.vice.com/en_au/article/9k5qe5/introducing-kandere-and-their-avant-garde-liquidised-trap

SMILE's first live performance of 2017. The band that no-one asked for. www.smoochrecords.org

Greta Now. "from Sydney and she sounds bored, but only because she's more interesting than everyone else. Old drum machines and Casio keyboards, deadpan vocals." Words via Guy www.gretanow.bandcamp.com/

Great Outdoors. fresh off their new LP Fake News, an album rich with mystery and surprise, and while it addresses modernity it does so with a diversity of sound and tone that offers a slice of magic track to track. It’s one of the best Australian releases of 2017 (4ZZZ). www.smoochrecords.org

Hemm, kooky electronic pop. www.smoochrecords.org

Sleep D, the axis of the Australian electronic subterranean. www.buttersessions.com/

SANPO DISCO. Disco escapism and rose-tinted balearic smooth rock. sanpodisco.net

Free rose on entry (unconfirmed). Few early bird tickets available. Jump on it while they last.

5pm till 3am. Safe house.

We acknowledge that this event is taking place on stolen Wurundjeri land. We pay our respects to elders past and present. Sovereignty never ceded.