OUR GOLDEN FRIEND x MELBOURNE MUSEUM

Our Golden Friend x Melbourne Museum team up to bring you a very special 'Nocturnal' featuring Jade Imagine, RVG, Jess Ribeiro, and Totally Mild

buy your tickets here

Melbourne label and artist management collective Our Golden Friend has teamed up with Melbourne Museum for a very special edition of Nocturnal. 

For the first time at Nocturnal, Totally Mild bring their re-imagined lounge pop to stage with delectable glamour. This alt-pop four piece are armed with dreamy yet drenched in melancholy tracks fresh from their highly-anticipated second album, Her (out now via Chapter Music).  Produced by James Cecil (Architecture in Helsinki, Super Melody) expect heart-pulling woozy ballads thanks to vocalist / guitarist and songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell, Zachary Schneider (guitar), Lehmann Smith (bass) and Dylan Young (drums). Her has been met with rave reviews, sending the band on a whirlwind USA and UK tour (including showcasing at the prestigious SXSW) and an Australian tour to follow in May and June.

Continuing the powerful vocal poignancy, Jess Ribeiro will bring to the stage compassionate self-conscious narratives, musically traversing an incredible range of genres. Her debut album Kill It Yourself(out now via Barely Dressed Records) was produced by the acclaimed Mick Harvey (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey) and was shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize in 2016, as well as earning Ribeiro two nominations in The Age Music Victoria Awards. Fresh off the heels of a successful stint at SXSW, Ribeiro is prepping to release her follow-up album later in the year.

Since performing at Nocturnal in August 2017, RVG have re-released their debut album A Quality of Mercy (out now through Our Golden Friend/Island Records) to critical acclaim and received four nominations in The Age Music Victoria Awards. Soaring even higher in 2018, they've conquered the influential SXSW Music Festival and been nominated for four AIR Music Awards.  Centred on singer-songwriter and namesake Romy Vager, this four-piece band including Reuben Bloxham, Angus Bell and Marc Nolte are back to kill it again with their witty and existential post-punk influenced rock.

Rounding out the evening will be Jade Imagine, a stalwart of the indie scene with their What The Fuck Was I Thinking (out via Milk! Records) released in April 2017.  Fronted by Jade McInally (previously Tantrums, Teeth & Tongue and Jess Ribeiro), the band currently features Liam ‘Snowy’ Halliwell (The Ocean Party) on bass, producer/guitarist Tim Harvey (Emma Louise, Real Feelings) and James Harvey (Teeth & Tongue) on drums. Along with their showcases at SXSW this year, the band has scored some exciting support slots with The Pretenders, Angel Olsen, and Benjamin Booker. 

Merging music with science and humanities, Nocturnal welcomes everyone 18+ to tour the exhibitions (with drinks in hand!), gaze upon collection treasures and speed-meet Museum experts who will be scattered across the gallery spaces. 

For those brave enough, the Museums Victoria Live Exhibits team will have on display golden silk orb-weavers and other impressive species demonstrating all-things-bling. Richard Marchant (Senior Curator, Terrestrial Invertebrates) and Simon Hinkley (Collection Manager, Terrestrial Invertebrates) share sparkly examples from the galaxy of entomology and join Dermot Henry (Deputy Director Sciences) as he showcases the geology of GOLD.  Learn how scientists use gold to scan microscopic creatures from beneath the sea with Lupita Bribiesca (PhD Student, Marine Biology) and Ricky-Lee Erickson (Assistant Collections Manager, Vertebrates) revealing golden marine invertebrates, including worms and sea stars. 

Revellers can also head downstairs to worshippers of gold in Vikings: Beyond the Legend, an exhibition from the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm which features more than 450 original artefacts telling the true story of these often-misunderstood Scandinavian celebrities. Pick up a ticket when you purchase your early bird Nocturnal ticket from the Melbourne Museum website.

Explore the entire Museum with galleries open till midnight, including the next innovative superstars from VCE and VET with Top Designs 2018, and a look at Australian fashion which has defied convention with You Can’t Do That  (presented by the Virgin Australia Melbourne Fashion Festival).

Nocturnal invites guests to rediscover wide-eyed wonder, unearth stories and revel on the dance floor at Melbourne Museum.  

Nocturnal
Friday 4 May, 7pm to midnight
Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Tickets: Nocturnal - Early Bird $25 / On the Door $35 (+ bf)
Nocturnal + Vikings - Early Bird $39 / On the Door $49 (+ bf)
Discounts for concessions

Grab your tickets here: https://museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/nocturnal//tickets/

For more information visit: museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/nocturnal/

RVG ANNOUNCE MELBOURNE HEADLINE SHOW AT THE CURTIN BANDROOM

Melbourne's RVG are today excited to announce their first Australian headline show since returning from the USA. The band will play a very special show in their hometown of Melbourne at The Curtin Bandroom on Thursday 3rd of May immediately before they head overseas again this time bound for the UK & Europe. The band will be joined by special guests Taipan Tiger Girls and Sweet Whirl. With no pre-sales, you'll have to eagerly get yourself to The Curtin on May 3rd as tickets will only be available on the door.

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/341512659704458/ 

RVG took their music overseas for the first time last month at Austin's SXSW, where they undoubtedly left an impression playing gripping showcases to packed-out rooms. Continuing on with their shimmering streak, this week RVG were announced as being nominated for four AIR Awards. In less than a month the band will support UK upstarts Shame on their 13 date European tour as well as playing The Great Escape Festival in Brighton.

RVG – known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017. Self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote, and engineered by their bassist Angus Belle, the eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer, the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian). The Fader called the album “a much-needed plea for kindness” with Triple R calling it “emotionally engaging”, whilst awarding their Album of the Week.

RVG signed with Our Golden Friend who re-released their album in October, which led into a much-hyped BIGSOUND set and four nominations at The Age Music Victoria Awards – for Best Album, Best Song, Best Band and Best Emerging Act. Their set at Meredith Music Festival was one of the most talked about over the weekend, and they went on to support Camp Cope, and then Future Islands, at The Forum – one of, if not the most iconic venue in Melbourne. RVG have since signed with Isla Angus at ATC Live for bookings in the UK/EU and Lucy Beach at Paradigm for North America. All this growing from a band whose first release of their debut album came with no photo, no press release, no plan.
 
Together, RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums) – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band.

RVG RECEIVE FOUR AIR AWARDS NOMINATIONS

Praise for A Quality of Mercy

RRR Album Of The Week
PBS Feature Album
RTR FM Feature Album
"A Quality Of Mercy is a much needed plea for kindness" - The Fader

“RVG evoke 80s Australian bands that crammed garage rock cred with sun-dappled hooks, such as Sunnyboys or the Go-Betweens. What makes these songs so moving is not Vager’s voice itself but her delivery. Her fierceness, her flow and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows.”
 - Kate Hennessy, The Guardian
 
"A Quality Of Mercy, an eight-track collection of tight, incisive post-punk/retro-pop infused with a liberal dose of downcast catharsis, confessional lyrics and downright infectious hooks."
– The Music
 
"A Quality of Mercy" is the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, led by songwriter Romy Vager: a powerful LP of emotionally engaging work that draws inspiration from post-punk and new wave pop styles.” – Simon Winkler, RRR
 
“A Quality of Mercy is the title of RVG’s gripping, post-gothic, charcoal sounding album. Television’s Marquee Moon and Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures are influencing current bands just a Rumours did three years ago”. – Mikey Cahill, The Herald Sun (listed album 7 in 10 ten albums of 2017 so far)
 
“A Quality of Mercy – the debut album from Melbourne’s RVG, is a collection of sharp, driving pop songs that draw equally from the goth palette of early 4AD and the literary proto-punk of Television.” – Who The Hell
 
“RVG deliver a world-class first release. Prepare yourself to be thrown back and feel all your feelings.” – Beth AQ, PBS Breakfast Spread

---

RVG have received an incredible FOUR nominations in this year's AIR Music Awards. Nominations are in the categories of Breakthrough Independent Artist of the Year, Best Independent Album or EP (forA Quality of Mercy), Best Independent Hard Rock, Heavy, or Punk Album (for A Quality of Mercy), andBest Independent Single (for 'A Quality of Mercy'). Winners will be announced July 26 at the Australian Independent Record Labels Association Awards Ceremony.

RVG – known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017. Self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote, and engineered by their bassist Angus Belle, the eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer, the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian). The Fader called the album “a much-needed plea for kindness”  with Triple R calling it “emotionally engaging”, whilst awarding their Album of the Week.

---

UPCOMING RVG SHOWS
 

UK
Thursday 17 May – Great Escape Festival – Brighton UK

EUROPE
(all dates w/ Shame)
Monday 7 May  – Café V Lese, Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday 8 May - Chelsea – Vienna, Austria
Wednesday 9 May - Orangehouse – Munich, Germany
Friday 11 May – Dynamo – Zurich, Switzerland
Saturday 12 May - Covo Club – Bologna, Italy
Monday 14 May – Sidecar – Barcelona, Spain
Tuesday 15 May - La Boite – Madrid, Spain
Sunday 20 May – Aeronef – Lille, France
Monday 21 May – YUCA – Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 22 May - Rotonde – Brussels, Belgium
Wednesday 23 May – Molotow – Hamburg, Germany
Friday 25 May - Badehaus – Berlin, Germany
Sunday 29 July - Festival Les Escales – Saint Nazaire, France

MOONLOVER RELEASES VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘LAZY DAISY’

“A great Australian artist that paves the way for a promising 2018 of Australian music” – The Wandering Lamb
 
“veers between psychedelia and pure pop songcraft in the best tradition of ‘60s acts” – Courier Mail, U on Sunday

Watch the video for 'Lazy Daisy' here

Fresh off the back of shows with US artist Angel Olsen in Melbourne, Melbourne’s mystic psychedelic rocker Moonlover is psyched to release the music video for new single ‘Lazy Daisy’ as premiered onThe AU Review and announce a single launch at the Old Bar in April with special guests to be announced. ‘Lazy Daisy’ is the latest cut from Moonlover’s debut album Thou Shall Be Free, out now through Our Golden Friend / Island Records.

The video for ‘Lazy Daisy’ shows Moonlover – aka Quang Dinh formerly of Little Red – wandering through a picturesque park and observing the simple things in life. Old friends playing a game of bowls, two lovers watching the clouds, a father and son walking by the pond. On the video, Dinh says, "I was 30 days sober, and feeling like a bit of the fog had lifted, it was a Sunday, the sun was bright and clear, and the people were feeling good."
 
In tune with his occult pseudonym, Dinh releases all of his music in synergy with the Lunar Calendar. The video for ‘Lazy Daisy’ has been released together with March’s second Full Moon, with his debut albumThou Shall Be Free released on its first Full Moon at the start of the month.
 
Thou Shall be Free is the kind of proper record that tells stories through the fantasy of surreal psychedelic songs across to the great reveal of romance. Called “surreal” by Pilerats, the album is a collection of reinterpreted nuances from the universe, including title track ‘Thou Shall Be Free’ that was gifted to Dinh by the late, great David Bowie, who came to him in a dream. The entirety of the album was recorded, produced and performed by Moonlover in his personal oasis Pink Slime Studios, sharing impressive recording credits with John Lee (Lost Animal, Beaches, Emma Russack) who was on mixing duties, with mastering by Joe Carra (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, Eddy Current Suppression Ring). Thou Shall Be Free has received praise from fans and media alike, with The Music noting “It’s pop music, certainly – but has the self-awareness that it doesn’t want to be too obvious about it” and Speaker TV calling it a "cosmic adventure."

UPCOMING MOONLOVER SHOWS

Saturday April 7
@ Northcote Social Club
supporting Cloud Control w/ Hachiku\
SOLD OUT

Saturday April 14 (solo)
@ The Old Bar
w/ Ded Square

Wednesday April 25
@ The Old Bar
'Laisy Daisy' single launch
supports TBA

RVG PREMIERE POWERFUL ‘EGGSHELL WORLD’ VIDEO ON LA WEEKLY AS THEY WRAP UP FIRST U.S. TOUR

Watch the video for Eggshell World here

“a passionate expression of identity and desire.” – LA Weekly

“There’s a reason why RVG are one of the most outstanding Melbourne bands around; something effortless in being on stage, something magical in frontwoman Romy’s voice. Guitars shimmer behind powerful vocals, surging with the urgency of 80’s new wave.” –The AU Review

Acclaimed post-punk band RVG have premiered the special and raw music video for ‘Eggshell World’ on LA Weekly today, as they wrap up their inaugural USA tour which included multiple SXSW showcases and shows at Rough Trade NYC and The Bootleg in LA. Taken from their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy, ‘Eggshell World’ shows singer Romy Vager in a single take, singing of her desire to split herself into two separate people to appease those around her.

 

RVG – Romy Vager (vocals, guitar), Reuben Bloxham (guitar), Angus Belle (bass), Marc Nolte (drums), known less formally as the Romy Vager Group – deliver a refreshing kind of honesty and intelligence that you don’t hear in your everyday garage band. Hailing from Melbourne’s northern suburbs, they released their acclaimed debut album A Quality of Mercy in 2017 which was self-recorded live off the floor at The Tote. The eight songs on A Quality of Mercy traverse through the myth of the tortured artist, the isolation of being trans, falling in love with a computer and the feeling of awaiting your fate on death row. Each song is played with wit, compassion and commitment, evident in singer Romy’s delivery, her “fierceness, her flow, and how clear it is she’s singing about what she knows” (The Guardian).
 
They four-piece signed with Our Golden Friend / Island Records who re-released their album in October, which led into a much-hyped BIGSOUND set and four nominations at The Age Music Victoria Awards – for Best Album, Best Song, Best Band and Best Emerging Act. RVG have since signed with Isla Angus at ATC Live for bookings in the UK/EU and Lucy Beach at Paradigm for North America, and are touring the UK and Europe this May with UK band Shame.

UPCOMING RVG SHOWS
 

UK
Thursday 17 May – Great Escape Festival – Brighton UK

EUROPE
(all dates w/ Shame)
Monday 7 May  – Café V Lese, Prague, Czech Republic
Tuesday 8 May - Chelsea – Vienna AT
Friday 11 May – Dynamo – Zurich, Switzerland
Saturday 12 May - Covo Club – Bologna, Italy
Monday 14 May – Sidecar – Barcelona, Spain
Tuesday 15 May - La Boite – Madrid, Spain
Sunday 20 May – Aeronef – Lille, France
Monday 21 May – YUCA – Cologne, Germany
Tuesday 22 May - Rotonde – Brussels, Belgium
Wednesday 23 May – Molotow – Hamburg, Germany
Friday 25 May - Badehaus – Berlin, Germany
Saturday 26 May - Strom – Munich, Germany

TOTALLY MILD ANNOUNCE INSTORE AT ROUGH TRADE EAST AND MORE UK DATES

"Led by Elizabeth Mitchell, the Australian quartet match off kilter guitars to some striking melodies, and fascinating lyricism." Clash
 
"Her is a gorgeous lush pop album that bristles with personal messages." God Is In The TV

"On the surface it sounds totally innocent, rendered in bright twanging guitars, bubblegum melodies and sing-song vocals. However, digging further into the actual words of the song and paying attention to Mitchell's careful inflections in her mellifluous voice, gives us a deeper and more resounding picture of someone dealing with the struggles of maintaining quotidian relationships." - The 405 (on "From One Another")

"Engorged, engaged, empowered bedroom sulk music." The Guardian
 
"A shining talisman for the heartbroken." Pitchfork

"Sweet, harmony-rich, pointedly concise jangle-pop" - NPR

"Skewed pop gold" - Noisey

Following the release of their new album Her via Chapter Music and hot-on-the-heels of shows at SXSW, Totally Mild head to the UK for a string of shows this week, starting with the Popular Culture club night at The Finsbury this Friday, a headline show at The Shacklewell Arms on Saturday 24 March and a newly announced Rough Trade East instore at lunchtime on Tuesday 27 March.

Totally Mild is a lush pop quartet led by songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell, with the addition of guitar magician Zachary Schneider, bassist Lehmann Smith and new drummer Dylan Young. With Her, the band's quasi-psychic intensity, surging forward or pulling back in seamless unison has been captured in crystalline form by producer and one-time Architecture In Helsinki member James Cecil.

As always, Elizabeth's voice is a thing of unearthly beauty, capable of soaring and swooping in shiver-inducing ways. As a songwriter she is equally arresting, addressing desires and dreams with affecting frankness.

About the new album, Mitchell says "Her is a record of failure and victory, new desire, stale romance, queer domesticity and what comes when the party is over. I was torn between a new domestic life and the impulse to tear it all away with bad choices. I fell in love, but I wrestled for independence. I was always trying to prove that I didn't need anyone; my wife, my friends, my band. Her is a document of a woman struggling with the idea of potential. We are told that we could be limitless, but we wrestle with unseen personal and structural walls."

TOTALLY MILD UK DATES


Friday March 23
@ The Finsbury, London
w/ Castorp and Life Models
TICKETS HERE

Saturday March 24
@ The Shacklewell Arms, London
w/ Champyons
TICKETS HERE

Tuesday March 27
@ Rough Trade East 1pm
Instore and signing
FREE

POPPONGENE ANNOUNCE 5-WEEK APRIL RESIDENCY

POPPONGENE is the dreamy pop solo project of Sophie Treloar (also of Melbourne outfits Sunbeam Sound Machine and Field Maps). POPPONGENE’s music recalls tranquil summer days, full of warmth and lush with reverb, bordering on the psychedelic with hints of 60s pop vibes.

Joining them throughout April will be some of Melbourne’s finest - Champion Racecourse, Sunbeam Sound Machine (solo), Field Maps, Real Love, No Local, Babey, Way Dynamic, Girlatones, pting, and Tram Cops (solo).

After taking a short break, POPPONGENE is playing the Tote front bar every Sunday in April, debuting a fresh new line up and some brand new songs! The new lineup consists of Skube Burnell on drums (808s and Greatest Hits), Chris Goff on guitar (Them Swoops, Hungry Kids of Hungary), Gemma Helms on bass (Mares) and Deanna Rumsaviche on keys (Oh Deanna).

Join them each week to get a sneak peak of the songs featured on POPPONGENE's forthcoming EP and to help extend those warm summer vibes a little bit longer! x

POPPONGENE APRIL RESIDENCY
THE TOTE FRONT BAR

Facebook event here

Sunday April 1
w/ Champion Racehorse & Sunbeam Sound Machine (solo)

Sunday April 8
w/ Field Maps & Real Love

Sunday April 15
w/ No Local & Babey

Sunday April 22
w/ Way Dynamic & Girlatones

Sunday April 29
w/ pting & Tram Cops (solo)

Spotify
Apple Music
Facebook
Instagram
Twitter
Youtube

OUR GOLDEN FRIEND AT SXSW

Our Golden Friend has put together two incredible day parties at SXSW 2018, alongside Sounds Australia and Nine Mile Touring, showcasing some of our favourite Aussie acts.

---

---

---

---

OUT TODAY: MOONLOVER'S DEBUT ALBUM THOU SHALL BE FREE

“What a deliriously delightful trip into the surreal the album is” – Pilerats
“a cosmic adventure” – Speaker TV
"One for driving down the coast with the windows down on a sunny afternoon." – Forte

Melbourne’s MOONLOVER has today released his debut full-length album, Thou Shall Be Free throughOur Golden Friend / Island Records. Moonlover is the moniker of Melbourne’s Quang Dinh, formerly ofLittle Red. In tune with his occult pseudonym, Dinh releases all of his music in synergy with the Lunar Calendar, with this album release falling in line with today’s Full Moon.

Listen to Thou Shall Be Free here. See Moonlover in his hometown of Footscray, see here for details.

The psychedelic pop album is laden with singles Queen of Sheba, The Ooiee and title track Thou Shall Be Free.  The eclecticism of the album journeys the listener through stories and experiences through time and space while weaving through Dinh’s subconscious. Written as an ode to observation of experiences around us, Thou Shall Be Free is the kind of proper record that tells stories through the fantasy of surreal psychedelic songs across to the great reveal of romance. Lyrically the songs read like poetry as the work in its entirety is a collection of reinterpreted nuances from the universe, including title track Thou Shall Be Free that was gifted to Dinh by the great David Bowie who came to him in a dream. Deep in slumber, Dinh was visited by Bowie who sang to him the opening line ‘Oh, oh, oh oh, Thou Shall Be Free’, Moonloverawoke and wrote the rest of the song within hours, stylistically paying homage to late pioneer.

The Ooiee changes pace with a cool and collected melody abed a driving bass line and a hooking chorus.Queen of Sheba is an offering to an ancient Ethiopian Queen, and is the perfect blend of pop functionality with intricate soundFX, trickling overdubs of colourful picking guitar. Upbeat Borderline explores the choices we make as carefree, quirky pop track. Mindbender begins with distorted synths, moving into airy open guitar lines, to intricate and multi-dimensional vocal work. Lazy Daisy is an airy, carefree love song with the summer breeze in hand. Introverted and sincere On The Day I Was Born changes pace with the piano introduction while Mekong Delta Blues touches on Dinh’s family history, opening with a recording of Quang’s father speaking on his experience migrating from post-war Vietnam. Wedding Day stylistically pays homage to 50s pop with clean arpeggio guitars, close harmonies and a Leonard Cohen-esque lyric that serves as a blessing and a warning. Laid back and easy listening Moonlover is about a midnight yearning for love.

The entirety of the album was recorded, produced and performed by Moonlover in his personal oasis Pink Slime Studios, sharing impressive recording credits with John Lee (Lost Animal, Beaches, Emma Russack) who was on mixing duties, with mastering by Joe Carra (King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Courtney Barnett, Eddy Current Suppression Ring).

As well as the completion of his debut album Moonlover had a stellar 2017, signing with Melbourne labelOur Golden Friend / Island Records - also home to artists like RVG and Poppongene - touring nationally with Saskwatch on their album tour, and is supporting Angel Olsen in Melbourne this month.

---

UPCOMING MOONLOVER SHOWS

Wednesday March 7 @ The Tote
Supporting Sons of Rico

Sunday March 11 @ The Rochey,
Supporting Castilles

Tuesday March 13 @ The Tramway
With Jessie L Warren

Thursday March 22 @ Littlefoot
With Kelly Day

Wednesday March 28 @ The Tote
Supporting Angel Olsen - SOLD OUT

TOTALLY MILD SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR 'FROM ONE ANOTHER'

In support of Her, the newly released album from Totally Mild, the band have shared a video for their single "From One Another." The video debuted via Culture Collide. Check it out here!

"From One Another" was directed by Tobias Willis of KEWL Studios and he notes, "this clip was a considered follow on from the previous for 'Today Tonight,' is drawing Liz's character to a subtle close. As with the other clips we were aiming to keep the video in a more cinematic space and were referencing some of those classic one takes from 60's & 70's cinema. Throughout the tracking shot each character vignette has it's own story exploring themes of loneliness, faith and friendship."  IndieShuffle have called the track "a sticky sweet indie pop gem that's lush with infectious chords and vocals."

Following an Australian tour with Perfume Genius, Totally Mild will be making their way to the US for slots at SXSW and a show at Brooklyn's Rough Trade on March 19.  More dates to be added soon.

Totally Mild started out as the solo project of songwriter Elizabeth Mitchell, and has now become a full blown lush pop quartet with the addition of guitar magician Zachary Schneider, drummer Ashley Bundang and bassist Lehmann Smith. With Her, the band's  quasi-psychic intensity, surging forward or pulling back in seamless unison has been captured in crystalline form by producer and one-time Architecture In Helsinki member James Cecil. 
 
As always, Elizabeth's voice is a thing of unearthly beauty, capable of soaring and swooping in shiver-inducing ways. As a songwriter she is equally arresting, addressing desires and dreams with affecting frankness.
 
About the new album, Mitchell says "Her is a record of failure and victory, new desire, stale romance, queer domesticity and what comes when the party is over. I was torn between a new domestic life and the impulse to tear it all away with bad choices. I fell in love, but I wrestled for independence. I was always trying to prove that I didn't need anyone; my wife, my friends, my band. Her is a document of a woman struggling with the idea of potential. We are told that we could be limitless, but we wrestle with unseen personal and structural walls."

TOTALLY MILD TOUR DATES

Friday March 2 @ Factory Theatre, Sydney
Supporting Perfume Genius (USA)
Tickets available here

Friday March 9 @ Recital Centre, Melbourne
Supporting Perfume Genius (USA)
Tickets available here

Friday March 9 - Sunday March 19 @ SXSW
Austin, Texas, USA

Monday March 19 @ Rough Trade, New York
Our Golden Friend Showcase with RVG, Jess Ribeiro and Jade Imagine
tickets

Saturday March 24 @ The Shacklewell Arms, London
Her album tour - tickets

Thursday May 24 @ Black Bear Lodge, Brisbane
Her album tour - tickets

Friday May 25 @ Waywards, Sydney
Her album tour - tickets

Saturday May 26 @ Howler, Melbourne
Her album tour - tickets

Thursday May 31 @ Mojo’s, Fremantle
Her album tour - tickets

Friday June 1 @ Prince Of Wales, Bunbury
Her album tour - tickets

Saturday June 2 @ The Bird, Perth
Her album tour - door sales only

Wednesday June 6: Crown & Anchor, Adelaide
Her album tour - free show