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.

Love To Leave You

On Bland

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Clown Town

Rip My Heart Out

The Freedom Club

Komet EP

Komet

Produced, composed and recorded by Brad Anderson Music
(2023) copyright Absolem music 
Mixed and Mastered by Arlo Enemark 
Melbourne Victoria, 2024

I get my Bubble O Bill at the TAB

2 Aussie post-punk acts join forces to release a synth heavy, super fun, danceable split single.

With ‘Nocturne Baby’, Cong's back on the (mutant) dance-floor. This time, instead of pounding the floor and walls relentlessly with punk fervor and reckless abandon though, he is instead luxuriating and sleazing all over it. On ‘Nocturne Baby’, the EBM squelks, bleeps and sharp synth arpeggios are there, but this time Cong's voice croons and washes over it playing necromancer, resurging all that is sensual, human and the opposite to daytime ratrace artifice.

Flip the record to hear dance-post-punk duo Hearts & Rockets’ new synth-heavy single ‘The Promise’. Sounding like the indie sleeze offspring of The Cramps and The B-52, Kalindy’s bratty vocals demand servitude, while Kurt’s stabbing bass punctures the synth’s driving melodies, all set to a disco beat.

CO- RELEASED WITH PSYCHIC HYSTERIA

Digital release date: 23/2/24
Vinyl out WW - 24/4/24

Cong Josie - Nocturne Baby

The debut 7" from Melbourne trio Party Pest is out now via Psychic Hysteria.

Post-punk, fun-time, gal-pals formed Party Pest in Melbourne in 2017, with their debut show at the 69th birthday bash of their No. 1 fan ("Hi Mum!"). Featuring Jemma Ives and Sally Balhorn (The Reprobettes) alongside Julia Watt (Moody Beaches, La Bastard, Hot Wings), Party Pest will crash your party, drink your booze and pash yer Mum. It's not a party without a pest!  

Available to purchase from partypest.bandcamp.com

Happy Man / I Can Do Better 7"

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Party Pest - I Can Do Better

Funky Again

Sydney-based singer-songwriter Moody Beach (aka Melissah Mirage) shares her new single, “Why Not” out via Viscera Arts.

A follow-up to her lauded sophomore EP ‘Mirage’, Mirage continues to flourish in distilling her sound and lyrics as fluid expressions of her life experience, and exploration of agency and autonomy as a woman. Produced by Kim Moyes of The Presets, “Why Not” opens to a plucked bass line as Mirage’s hazy vocals cut to the fold, in a smoke-laced hit of instantly addictive melody. Between shoegaze-riddled fuzz and crisp snares, “Why Not” is the perfect amalgamation of analog and electro, as every note sits with clarity in Marie’s serenading world of indie-pop catharsis.

Moody Beach says about “Why Not”: “‘Why Not’ is about unfulfilled desire towards a person who is off-limits; how this desire muddles the brain and your capacity to think and act logically. To me, desire is one of the most primal human instincts. I revelled in the feeling and had a lot of fun writing the song. It was the perfect outlet and a cathartic release.”

Kim Moyes says about “Why Not”: “Even in the roughest & purest form of the demo, “Why Not” stood out as something instantly exciting and relatable. The overall energy struck me as a perfect, but unusual kind of left-field hot-and-bothered. Most importantly, I felt that Mel's lyrics nailed the sense of excitement, danger and angst of desire. It was an absolute pleasure to help realise Mel's vision for the record.”

Moody Beach - Why Not

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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