We top and tailed the entry and departure points of our album ‘Love To Leave You’ with Observatory I and Observatory II. 

Observatory I opens the album beckoning the listener up to a floating point higher and higher to can look down and look back and question memories and stories. A clarity is promised amidst the misty-eyed smoke screen enroute to reclaiming perspective. But the looking glass is starting to crack.

Observatory II is a stark yet brutal vision, a clear-eyed reflection. Sometimes there are no answers and no resolutions. It’s a heavy, heartbreaking statement of memory and nostalgia and escape from a real-life suburban fever dream. There were tears in the studio for these takes. It’s not something we’ll play live often. It’s recorded in an alien, tech-layered way to create a distance between subject and listener, remove the listener via virtual realities it depicts.

Love To Leave You

Observatory II

‘Beauty Weaponised’ was sparked when posed the question: What does beauty mean to you? Zec, was being interviewed on camera by F.C.K – a legendary local hip hop artist who was filming their ‘Fightin On’ clip (find here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwFeWCvP5os). The question permeated into this song. The answer was an amalgamation of memory and tactile tales. A jumper made from wool your mother made herself, a patchwork quilt, a fleeting landscape, an explosion of colour across the sky. What does beauty mean to you?

Beauty Weaponised

Living with and through an invisible illness. Music and art to melt the day away. Battling the mind and body and choosing to get up everyday and breath in and out. Written and recorded before the pandemic made us all question the interrelation of the health of our mind and body.

Feel It Moving

We enjoyed a reviewer referring to this track as a 'synth crooner' and we also completely cherished and tuned in the work of Julee Cruise while creating this track, and were stunned that she died the week of its release. 

Night Moves is a trip into 2062, where a nuclear storm is endlessly roaring outside the window, and a single thirty-something A.I. House Bot, in kitchen apron and platinum blonde hair is burning the dinner and swirling on the kitchen linoleum in the smoke with implanted memories of the long-lost dancefloor. Alexa burning down the house.

Night Moves

Are we in control or is new tech winning? Are we the gamechangers? Who are the curators and gatekeepers of technology and of the music industry. “What are your numbers?” 

Labels blocking album releases if the Tik Tok isn't viral. Who’s listening to the art and to the song? We are literally ‘instrumental’ as musicians, we are open-source opening our hearts, we’re the computers, and the content management systems. We see and speak the truths around us, and that is our role. Our limbs are outstretched, and the gatekeepers continue emulating perpetual straight, white masculinity. They are broken dream investors, more invisible than ever behind the algorithm. Slay to the algorithm. Let’s Dance.

What Are Your Numbers?

Identity theft and the masks we wear to project our personal bland. The personal blah blah bland. Everyone is a marketing expert and life is in ‘always on’ mode. We’re blending our foundation, our make-up, trying on new personas every day to become an ‘individual’ but we are sadly, one big melting pot of homogenized beige puree. There’s a lyric in there too “Typical, analytical, let it go” - an ode to The Slits famous single ‘Typical Girls’ honouring a true original, Ari Up.

On Bland

A breakdown in communication and technology. Ghostly specters, that hum to us through walls, in the wiring and the wifi. Inviting the listener to expose their wiring and to effectively assimilate and join the wireframe. This song is full of ghosts, tricks of the mind and movements in the corner of your eye. Did that light flash? Did that painting move? Is the thermostat broken? Is a floating dandelion a sign?

Mercury In Retrograde

We top and tailed the entry and departure points of the new ‘Love To Leave You’ album with Observatory I and Observatory II. 

Observatory I opens the album beckoning the listener up to a floating point higher and higher to can look down and look back and question memories and stories. A clarity is promised amidst the misty-eyed smoke screen enroute to reclaiming perspective. But the looking glass is starting to crack.

Observatory II is a stark yet brutal vision, a clear-eyed reflection. Sometimes there are no answers and no resolutions. It’s a heavy, heartbreaking statement of memory and nostalgia and escape from a real-life suburban fever dream. There were tears in the studio for these takes. It’s not something we’ll play live often. It’s recorded in an alien, tech-layered way to create a distance between subject and listener, remove the listener via virtual realities it depicts.

Observatory I

Escalator (single)

Escalator (MP3)

Their second release, 'Escalator' released June 2020, from their upcoming full-length vinyl album for release in late 2020. 

Read the 'Escalator' review from Weirdo Wasteland blog here: https://weirdowasteland.com/2020/06/19/listen-double-vanity-escalator/

20 June 2020

Escalator

Melbourne three-piece, Double Vanity bring listeners a dishy treat, with in-flight entertainment 'Double Vanity Remixes', an EP of re-interpretations of two singles! Available for preorder now ahead of official release on 20 November, 2020 ...

Shemale crime coven (ex-Habits) pairs a darkwave Berlin doof with glitch, witch house, alien-like blast - wait for the drop in this Double Vanity remix! 

Two new videos follow the Remixes EP with Escalator (Jimmy Cass Remix), and a beautiful found-footage clip produced by the talented blaberunner to pair with Double Vanity (Astral Skulls Remix).

ENJY 'Double Vanity Remixes' EP as a lockdown tasting plate for the the full-length album to drop early 2021.

Double Vanity Remixes EP

Double Vanity - shemale crime coven

Double Vanity (shemale crime coven Remix)

"It's like 1983 crawled out of my speakers and cradled me!" SoundCloud comment.

Melbourne three-piece, Double Vanity bring listeners a dishy treat, with in-flight entertainment 'Double Vanity Remixes', an EP of re-interpretation singles released on 20 November, 2020 ...

The EP features amazing artists and producers, levelling-up with a game changer, Escalator (Jimmy Cass Remix) that transforms nostalgic feels into an South London 80's dancefloor blinding us with glittery gem mirror balls!

Double Vanity Remixes

Escalator - Jimmy Cass remix

Escalator (Jimmy Cass remix)

Naarm / Melbourne-based three-piece Double Vanity transported listeners into their brave new world with the arrival of indie chill synths from another dimension and dreamy guitar, vintage beats and post punk/crystalline vocals. 

Double Vanity released their pioneering debut album 'Love to Leave You' out 30 Sept 2022 to much international acclaim.

'Love To Leave You,' is out now through Psychic Hysteria. Mixed and mastered by Naomune Anzai (Teskey Brothers + Cash Savage and the Last Drinks)the concept album captures ice-cool realms of feminine love, loss, ghosts, and algorithms in answer to the feminist fires of Plaster of Paris' sisterband 2021 release, Lost Familiar, of which all three are members.

Single, Night Moves was released with video Directed by luminary Geoffrey O'Connor in a dreamy, pink limo, champagne afterparty haze the single charted at #1 on Soundcloud's Re-Ex Top 40 Underground Electronic Charts in 2022. US music mag, Austin Town Hall were “drawn to the majesty” of the vocals and music and was described by vocalist Zec Zechner as;

“a trip into 2062, a nuclear storm is endlessly roars outside the window, of a single thirty-something A.I. House Bot, donning kitchen apron and platinum blonde hair is burning the dinner and swirling on the checkered kitchen linoleum floor, on which the the oven drips smoky haze. Alexxa simulates day-dreams, for the long-lost dancefloor with her nostalgic sad indie chill, genre filter, conjuring her implanted memories”.

Escalator single, was launched with video clip and an online Q&A as part of the 2020 Leaps and Bounds Music Festival makes a statement about an artist escaping corporate boredom to fulfil their creative self. Featuring performance artist and painter Billi Lime and directed filmmaker Stephanie Gould (US). The track engaged audiences on YouTube with its meditation on the unfolding of a performer’s work and art-life, joyful collaboration of muse and artist. 

Self-titled debut track Double Vanity immediately grabbed the attention of the local and international airwaves. Its beautiful found footage video clip delved into an ‘80s plaza experience, complete with dream bathroom renovations and lycra-clad dancers, swirling jangle guitar and vocals dissolve in a hypnotic dance. 

During Melbourne's extended lockdown, Double Vanity released the DV EP of remixes of their previous two singles. The Double Vanity Remixes EP features amazing producers and artists Jimmy Cass, shemale crime coven (Angel from Habits), Psychic Hysteria label-mate Astral Skulls and Mino Peric (No Sister) and beloved Estonian electronic music star, Starlight Maker.

Alight the escalator into the skies for an automated trajectory to Love to Leave You out on 30 Sept, 2022 via Psychic Hysteria.

Contact doublevanitymusic@gmail.com

PRESS QUOTES

Night Moves "...it’s all murky atmospheres and sticky melodies, and paired with the brand new clip created by Geoffrey O'Connor, it’s a disorientating yet glamorous ride packed with a potently emotive punch that has us completely hooked." Trouble Juice May 2022

"Zec Zechner’s voice is surely the central focus; you are drawn to the majesty that it presents throughout, with moments that feel like the notes could shatter before your ears" Austin Town Hall (USA) May 2022

“Mixing original synths, vintage drum machines, dreamy Twin Peaks guitars, and otherworldly post-punk vocals their music is a perfect description of analogue sounds.” Visual Atelier 8 (USA) July 2020

“...‘Escalator’ is an ode to life’s relentless upward trajectory and a reminder to stop and smell the roses once in a while. ...I’d say Double Vanity create a potpourri of dream-pop, ambient sound, and melodic post-punk, but with a tousled new-wave glamour that makes the band’s sound feel both contemporary and nostalgic” James Frostick, Weirdo Wasteland June 2020

“... a seasoned group of musicians showing all the footnotes of an important band to come.” Daniel Devlin, Trouble Juice July 2020

“In devising their own genre, Double Vanity nullify the need for generic descriptors, favouring a fresh epithet they can paint their own style onto. Double Vanity are a band whose music expresses feelings that words can’t articulate, with the ability to lure the listener into otherwise confronting self-reflections,” Hum Zine Germany, July 2020

“Melbourne trio Double Vanity has given me chills with the release of its new track ‘Escalator.’ The lush synths and Kate Bush-esque vocals give it a cool retro feel, but there’s an immediate emotional intensity that grounds it in the now.” Sounds of Oz July 2020

“The mesmerizing moody approach to the flowing vocals really made this track for me, perfectly supplementing the ethereal instrumental in creating an absolutely hypnotic and alluring soundscape.” Underrated blog (USA) August 2020

“I’m a metal dude and this song is absolutely amazing.” Manzanamandinga, YouTube Double Vanity’s, self titled, video page Double Vanity comment 2020

"It's like 1984 crawled out of my speakers and cradled me" Heurt, legendary Soundcloud 'Escalator' comment 2020

AWARDS + NOMINATIONS

Soundcloud Re-Ex Electronic Underground Charts reached #1 for track:
Night Moves - Double Vanity

Music Victoria Awards 2022:
Outstanding Woman in Music Nomination - Sarah Blaby. 
Double Vanity's trio ARE the sisterband of Plaster of Paris, nominated for Best Punk Rock Act category MVAs 2021.

Music Victoria Awards 2020 longlisted for nominations in three categories:
Best Emerging Act - Double Vanity
Best Song - Escalator
Best Female Musician - Sarah Blaby

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