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We’ve got one last banger before the rekkid drops this Friday. In case you still haven’t been acquainted yet, the cowboy futurist of Oz, Cong Josie, is back to make darn sure you know his name and his game with ‘Cong the Singer’ the final single from his eponymous album Cong! It’s 4 minutes of Cong madness and malarky after which we think you’ll count yourself a co-conspirator, partner in crime or just need a cold shower. 

This thrusting synth-punk stomper is a timely manifesto announcing the imminent release of his debut LP, Cong!  Crooning, yelping and cooly fantasising in spoken word, Cong serves up his most blistering joy-ride yet. Imagery is invoked of a speeding Eastern Freeway drive in a crowded clown-car/Ford Laser with Giorgio Moroder in the back seat squeezed in with a strong-man chanting choir and a lush disco chanteuse whose voice floats crystal clear with hope. Cong is at the wheel of course, all hopped up on 7/11 one dollar coffees singing Roy Orbison too fast at 78rpm while Johnny Cayn is the front passenger playing a hillbilly slide guitar with complete abandon - wind flowing through his curly locks.

The origin story told in ‘Cong The Singer’ of Cong coming good as a gun-for-hire singer who becomes infamous at the parma-night mega pubs of the suburban sprawl doing a sort of Elvis-does-pub-rock karaoke show may have only a thin veneer of irony about it though. Cong’s daylighting alter-ego Nic Oogjes (NO ZU) grew up driving daily on the freeway mentioned, and it could be said that his own insecurities as a singer, and that of perpetually feeling like an outsider who (fruitlessly) seeks acceptance via creative output, of which will never actually align with broad definitions of 'good' in the ‘burbs, could be fuelling this trip. This is just a theory though. For now, let’s just thrust along to Cong, the “stiletto singer, moonlighting in the dead of night”.

GENRE : No Wave, New Wave, Post-Punk, Synthwave, 
RIYL: Alan Vega, The Cramps, Chrome, The Birthday Party 

‘Cong the Singer’ single releases October 15th on all digital platforms. Cong!  the debut LP is out October 22nd 2021. On digital CD and ultra-limited hot pink vinyl through It Records
Contact: Kate Reid itrekkids@gmail.com

Pre-order now at itrecordsmelb@bandcamp.com

Cong Josie -  Cong The Singer

Taken from "self-titled" LP
Released: March 5, 2021 

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NAM'S- SPIRAL PAIN

This a time for mourning
This is a time for remembering 
This is a celebration 

I’ll get you some pretty roses
And lay them on your grave 
It’s the least I can do 
To thank you
For ending it this way 
Please don’t come and try to haunt me
You’ve done so already
Rest In Peace and be forgotten
It’s meant to be this way 

Pretty dismal
Pretty cold and grey
So abysmal 
Getting darker every day

Wish I never knew you
Wish I had the words to say 
Wish it happened sooner 

I’ll get you some pretty roses
And lay them on your grave 
It’s the least I can do 
To thank you
For ending it this way 
Please don’t come and try to haunt me
You’ve done so already
Rest In Peace and be forgotten
It’s meant to be this way

Pretty Dismal

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DIY DEMO EP #2

Half synthpop, half darkwave

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Taken from the upcoming 'Misbehave' EP set for release on December 3rd 2021.

- Crack -
I see the crack in your eyes                                                              
The blur inside your head                                                             
Just an empty shell                                                                 
Floating around like a lifeless vest
                                                   
I feel you turn to stone                                                               
Relentless and forlorn                                                                    
Into the darkened skies                                                                        
That feed upon your life

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New exclusive track that will be included in the 3" mini CD version part of a special bundle of the upcoming 'Misbehave' EP!

- Detest -
The color in your eyes
When all comes alive
The feeling that we get 
When hearts despise

Rain and ash
Feelings now derived
In desolate moors
Our souls detest

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