Outta Sight

The new single from Sydney indie-alt-rockers Hedge Fund, 'Object of My Affection' will be released on October 24.

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Object Of My Affection

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Boyfriend

HEDGE FUND - 'Summer's Getting Shorter' - VIDEO OUT NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5-I4gFdNB4

Summer's Getting Shorter

VIDEO OUT NOW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Ih38jhjOA

What You're Hiding

“Hot & Lonely", produced by Jake Stone (Bluejuice) is the latest single from Bondi 5-piece Hedge Fund - officially released Jan 20th.

Like Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, The White Stripes, and Die Antwoord, the foundation of Hedge Fund’s identity is simple: a creative, and complicated, partnership between two lovers.

The band’s singer William Colvin and keyboard player Katie Green have a complicated relationship. William, an Australian raised in London, and Katie, a girl who grew up west of Sydney in the Hawkesbury Valley, fell instantly in love one night in August of 2013 and moved into a Bondi apartment together the very next day. The complexities of their relationship extend outward into the band, the music, and the entire visual aesthetic.

While it’s difficult to put Hedge Fund’s music into a single genre, they have a sound that walks the line between dreamy prog-pop and muscular post-rock grooves, drawing influence from The Cure, Talking Heads, and New Order. The result is a sound as haunting as it is energetic, and uniquely their own.

“Hot & Lonely is a song about love and emptiness. When you live the way Katie and I do, you’re constantly trying to understanding how to manage your love, jealous, sexual energy and loneliness. Ultimately, it’s a song about true love. Not the fantasy of love that men like Don Draper invented to sell lipstick, but the kind of complicated love that endures.” – William Colvin

PREVIOUS MEDIA PRAISE
“The whole post-punk vibe of this track works for me.” Richard Kingsmill (triple j)

“Swag. That bassline. Swag all the way.” Zan Rowe (triple j)

“Deliciously dark with loads of swagger.” Nat Tencic (triple j)

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WEBSITE hedgefundband.com/
CONTACT will@hedgefundband.com

Produced by Jake Stone, William Colvin and Richard Belkner.
Recorded, mixed and engineered by Richard Belkner at Free Energy Device Studios.
Performed by William Colvin, Nicholas Weaver, Mislav Belobrajdic, Lozz Benson, Katie Green and Sarah Belkner.
Mastered by Michael Lynch.
Written by William Colvin.
Copyright William Colvin 2014.

Hot & Lonely

The movement from depression into hope unraveled layers of complex cognition and a heightened creative determination for Sydney's Hedge Fund. But here they stand with their most confident single yet - 'True Romance' - their first to emerge following a year of personal turmoil for the group's frontman, self-proclaimed provocateur Will Colvin.

An immaculate melting pot of muscular post-punk grooves and dreamy synth-pop, 'True Romance' is a return to form for the band, rolling with heart and sparking with emotional rawness, think the likes of New Order, Talking Heads and The Cure. For Colvin, it came with a sizable helping of heartbreak.

"True Romance was written as a reaction to the death of my father and the breakdown of my marriage, the loss of the two most important people in my life in a very short period of time. The lyrics are about grief, frustration, failure and the lies that we tell ourselves about who we are as human beings. It's a song about being wrenched into a situation which caused an immense loss of faith in reality."

Recorded alongside longtime producing partner Richard Belkner at studio Free Energy Device in Camperdown, the pair went deep on this one, working hard to merge the pounding combination of bass, drums and vocals at the core of the song. The result - something between Nirvana and Blade Runner.

Hedge Fund have been played on triple j, FBi, Californian (US) radio KGEE, KEGR, KXRN, & XTRA, received great support from local and international online outfits as well as local and regional stations, toured the Australian east coast, and supported bands like British India and Dappled Cities. They play at Visions at Waywards in Newtown, Friday March 16, the same day 'True Romances' is released.

True Romance

Hedge Fund is the the breakout musical project producer and singer Hedgeward Fundë.

His haunted yet poppy sound walks the line between muscular post-punk rock grooves and modern electronica. Queens of The Stone Age with a stop off at Gorillaz along the way to early 2000’s era New Order.

Hedgeward Fundë’s story is not a happy one. In his home country, he had the perfect life. After working as an award winning journalist for several years, Hedgeward saved up enough money to buy a small house in the Swiss countryside and live a simple existence, painting portraits for locals and doing odd jobs for the people around town.

He met a girl, the love of his life, and the two were soon married. Edie was everything Hedgeward had ever wanted, and he was her dream.

In the morning while she slept, Hedgeward would sometimes wake a few minutes early to at her face, marvelling at how someone could be so beautiful, even while sleeping, even without make-up.

The two were devestated when Hedgeward’s father, beloved by the pair for his kindness and wisdom, died suddenly of pancreatic cancer.

And soon, tragedy struck again. While driving home Edie called Hedgeward to tell him the best news of either of their lives. Edie was pregnant.

But as the words came out of her mouth, he heard it. 

He heard the 16 wheel semi-trailer plough through Edie’s tiny Proton Savvy, a horrible sound, a sound that sounded like one giant piece of metal colliding at high speed with a much smaller piece of metal. Which, technically, is exactly what it was.

Hedgeward had lost everything. He’d lost his beloved father, and he’d heard his beautiful wife die while pregnant with their child.

But Hedgeward’s heart didn’t break. It turned to stone. Cold, black stone. That’s just how some good men deal with pain, they turn bad.

Hedgeward, previously a kind, gentle, humble man with no desire for power or money, changed in an instant. He no longer cared for love, or friendship.

All he cared about now was money, and power. And he knew where to get it - the land of the almighty dollar, where anyone, through hard work and ruthlessness, can become as rich and powerful as they want. The United States of America.

He moved to the USA and went straight from JFK AIrport to Wall St, walked through the doors of Goldman Sachs, and told them he wanted to be their top investment banker.

They laughed him all the way down Broadway. He had no financial experience, and he came from some weird country no one had ever heard of.

But Hedgeward wasn’t ready to give up. He didn’t need Goldman Sachs to make him an investment banker - he had a skill that could him more money than any stock broker could ever dream of.
He could write music. 

On his new EP ‘Graceless’, we hear in the singles ‘True Romance’ and ‘Graceless’ Hedgeward’s descent through pain into villainy. 

On ‘Like for Like’ we hear the disgust and contempt he holds for his fellow human beings.

The record’s one love song, ‘Physical Education’ is a love song only to greed, clothes and money.

He may not have been the CEO in a bank, but he was still going to get to the top.

And so Hedgeward’s Hedge Fund was born.

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