"Rhinestones" North America Tour 2022
HTRK
Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK ['Hate Rock']. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It's music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.
HTRK's albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.
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Live electronic / noise / avant pop/rock act from Melbourne known for their subtlety of gesture and stubbornly languorous performances, this two-piece is capable of seducing audiences through disciplined waves of sonics, crisp 808 beats and soft, calm threats. From 2007-09, HTRK toured Europe extensively at the personal request of Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shellac, The Horrors, The Locust and Fuck Buttons. Their defiantly underground pedigree derives from strong associations with the late, great Rowland S. Howard and UK industrial legend Paul Smith whose label Blast First Petite(Pan Sonic, Martin Rev) they are signed to. HTRK sadly lost their bassist to suicide in 2010 but have since returned with a comeback show of "purging... redolent beauty" (NME) at the ICA London and will spend this year touring in support of their forthcoming album entitled "WORK (work, work)".
"fans of raw drone will zone out in their glory" - ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"awe-inspiring" - ROCK A ROLLA
"extraordinarily sexy" 4/6 - TIME OUT UK
"amazing, heartbreaking sound" - 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS
"Obsessed." 8/10 - NME
"A musical suicide pact between Swans and Mazzy Star"- PLAYLOUDER
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HTRK
Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK ['Hate Rock']. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It's music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.
HTRK's albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.
~~~~~~~~~
Live electronic / noise / avant pop/rock act from Melbourne known for their subtlety of gesture and stubbornly languorous performances, this two-piece is capable of seducing audiences through disciplined waves of sonics, crisp 808 beats and soft, calm threats. From 2007-09, HTRK toured Europe extensively at the personal request of Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shellac, The Horrors, The Locust and Fuck Buttons. Their defiantly underground pedigree derives from strong associations with the late, great Rowland S. Howard and UK industrial legend Paul Smith whose label Blast First Petite(Pan Sonic, Martin Rev) they are signed to. HTRK sadly lost their bassist to suicide in 2010 but have since returned with a comeback show of "purging... redolent beauty" (NME) at the ICA London and will spend this year touring in support of their forthcoming album entitled "WORK (work, work)".
"fans of raw drone will zone out in their glory" - ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"awe-inspiring" - ROCK A ROLLA
"extraordinarily sexy" 4/6 - TIME OUT UK
"amazing, heartbreaking sound" - 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS
"Obsessed." 8/10 - NME
"A musical suicide pact between Swans and Mazzy Star"- PLAYLOUDER
"Rhinestones" North America Tour 2022
HTRK
Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK ['Hate Rock']. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It's music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.
HTRK's albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.
~~~~~~~~~
Live electronic / noise / avant pop/rock act from Melbourne known for their subtlety of gesture and stubbornly languorous performances, this two-piece is capable of seducing audiences through disciplined waves of sonics, crisp 808 beats and soft, calm threats. From 2007-09, HTRK toured Europe extensively at the personal request of Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shellac, The Horrors, The Locust and Fuck Buttons. Their defiantly underground pedigree derives from strong associations with the late, great Rowland S. Howard and UK industrial legend Paul Smith whose label Blast First Petite(Pan Sonic, Martin Rev) they are signed to. HTRK sadly lost their bassist to suicide in 2010 but have since returned with a comeback show of "purging... redolent beauty" (NME) at the ICA London and will spend this year touring in support of their forthcoming album entitled "WORK (work, work)".
"fans of raw drone will zone out in their glory" - ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"awe-inspiring" - ROCK A ROLLA
"extraordinarily sexy" 4/6 - TIME OUT UK
"amazing, heartbreaking sound" - 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS
"Obsessed." 8/10 - NME
"A musical suicide pact between Swans and Mazzy Star"- PLAYLOUDER
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HTRK
Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK ['Hate Rock']. Across nearly two decades of work, wounds (co-founder Sean Stewart tragically took his own life in 2010), and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. Theirs is a chemistry of smoke, echo, and the undertows of desire, the dislocation of cities and memory, the melancholy of distance and deepening night. It's music of solitude and sensuality, for small hours and lost weekends, spoken in an intimate shadowplay language of skeletal electronics, velvet voice, and noir guitar.
HTRK's albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over The Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.
~~~~~~~~~
Live electronic / noise / avant pop/rock act from Melbourne known for their subtlety of gesture and stubbornly languorous performances, this two-piece is capable of seducing audiences through disciplined waves of sonics, crisp 808 beats and soft, calm threats. From 2007-09, HTRK toured Europe extensively at the personal request of Liars, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Shellac, The Horrors, The Locust and Fuck Buttons. Their defiantly underground pedigree derives from strong associations with the late, great Rowland S. Howard and UK industrial legend Paul Smith whose label Blast First Petite(Pan Sonic, Martin Rev) they are signed to. HTRK sadly lost their bassist to suicide in 2010 but have since returned with a comeback show of "purging... redolent beauty" (NME) at the ICA London and will spend this year touring in support of their forthcoming album entitled "WORK (work, work)".
"fans of raw drone will zone out in their glory" - ALL MUSIC GUIDE
"awe-inspiring" - ROCK A ROLLA
"extraordinarily sexy" 4/6 - TIME OUT UK
"amazing, heartbreaking sound" - 20 JAZZ FUNK GREATS
"Obsessed." 8/10 - NME
"A musical suicide pact between Swans and Mazzy Star"- PLAYLOUDER
show less
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