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11-07-2025
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Solo Career's Shares Debut Album Interior Delirium, A Stop-motion Music Video For 'Bed Knot'
Solo Career, the beguiling bedroom-pop project of Body Type's Annabel Blackman today shares her debut album, Interior Delirium, out now via Dinosaur City. Interior Delirium is a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. It's fitting for a project that was borne from musician Annabel Blackman's interest in the uncanny and reflective possibilities of persona. 'The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation' says Blackman. If her first solo EP The Sentimentalist (2021) was a dreamy strut, Interior Delirium is an unruly waltz, where foggy, late-night longing merges with stomping, hilarious, cyborg satire. Interior Delirium was made in-between tours and sessions for Blackman's group Body Type, and served as a counterpoint to playing and writing in a band. She was able to explore a radically different mode of making music – where she was free to obsess and fixate, and let experimentation and imperfection be. As Blackman puts it: 'Solo Career is part control freak, part embellished mess.' The album was performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Blackman, and marks the release of songs that she's been tinkering with for many years. Advertisement - scroll to continue reading 'I'd pick up an instrument, make a blip or blop and follow the thread until a song took shape,' says Blackman. 'I started one of the songs almost ten years ago, picked it up and finished it 6 years later, played it at shows for a couple years, and then got so tired of working on it by myself that I just let the jagged edges be, because polished stuff isn't for me anyway.' Lead single 'Venus on Speed Dial' is a synth-driven road song about the discombobulations of desire, and how wanting someone can so often come at the expense of your own personhood: 'This one is dedicated to being messed around by someone and going a bit loopy, and the experience of morphing yourself into whatever you think someone might like you to be,' says Blackman. The song revels in this claustrophobia, with distorted synths, fuzzy guitars and Blackman's disaffected drawl ("What's your ideal/ What's the appeal'), which swaddles the song in both humour and tenderness. In Interior Delirium, alienation is the presiding texture of modern life, manifesting in the most ridiculous way. 'Spring Drills', a bouncing New Wave song stripped back to its brittle bones, pokes fun at the inescapable building developments that riddle both the city and the suburbs, causing endless racket. As Blackman sings: 'The spring drill sings / spirals through the window / And every cell of your being / wants to jump out the window'. 'Neo Soul Jazz Afternoon' is a slow-burning dream-pop ballad, which discusses the dullness of easy listening music that has taken over shopping malls and offices. 'Is That U', a wry rock song about women going to extreme lengths to look ageless and exactly like one another, brimming with dark, hilarious imagery: flesh being hacked off, g-string seams, and a 'saturday rhinoplasty with my sister'. How can one stave off the dread? On Interior Delirium, Blackman gives us a tart tasting platter of what's on offer. 'Spenda', released last month alongside a visual masterpiece courtesy of acclaimed artist, Matthew Griffin, is crazed, robotic, electro-pop (replete with jagged guitars and vocals pitched so high they mimic a kid having a temper tantrum) about the agony and addiction of online shopping. 'It's a sad thing when you're caught in the futility of trying to buy someone a present,' says Blackman. But despite the song's mechanical bent, there is a hidden layer of sweetness – it's really a love song about hoping a gift will embody all your affection for someone ('I want to buy you everything,' as Blackman coos). 'Beta' is a buzzing, lo-fi synth song about the allure of the beta blocker: 'it's this gag about taking beta blockers and then becoming some like, hardcore Alpha Dog' says Blackman. If all else fails, you can, like Blackman's father, go see Avatar eight times at the cinemas, which she tenderly chronicles in the sauntering 'Avatar' (featuring Boba Lego AKA Oscar Sulich of Eternal Dust), something of a spiritual sequel to her 2021 track 'Movie'. But despite all these endless alienations and futile cures, connection is still found and fought for. 'GWD' is a pounding, fuzzy anthem to friend and Body Type member Georgia Wilkinson-Derums ('if she likes it I know it's good'). The album ends with the lush and atmospheric 'Bed Knot', an ode to Blackman's boyfriend's bed hair in the morning. But it's also about entanglement – a kind of euphoria that can sometimes stifle. 'It's that feeling of being lovingly trapped,' says Blackman 'being totally wrapped up in each other.' Interior Delirium has a similar enveloping charm: it's a beguiling and twisty record, full of great, scrappy pleasures and droll affection. Since the release of her debut EP The Sentimentalist via Dinosaur City in 2021, Solo Career has been met with critical acclaim from PAPER Magazine, NME, KEXP, WFMU and community radio across Australia. Her song 'Movie' was featured in Fader's Best Songs of 2021, and her EP The Sentimentalist was included in The Guardian's Best Australian Albums of 2021. 'Venus on Speed Dial', the first single from her upcoming album, was added to rotation at FBi Radio and RTR, charted at 4ZZZ, and featured on Rolling Stone Australia's as 'Song You Need to Know'. It's accompanying Gus Macleod-directed music video featured as rage's 'Wild One'. Solo Career's thrilling live sets – where Blackman combines the humour and theatrics of cabaret with her stylish, singular synth-pop – has seen her support Julia Jacklin, The Hard Quartet, Gum and Springtime, among others. Interior Delirium is out now via Dinosaur City.
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04-07-2025
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Solo Career Shares ‘Spring Drills'; Debut Album Interior Delirium Out July 11 Via Dinosaur City
Solo Career, the beguiling bedroom-pop project of Body Type's Annabel Blackman today shares 'Sprill Drill'. The new track arrives a week ahead of the release of Solo Career's debut album Interior Delirium, due Friday, July 11 via Dinosaur City. 'Spring Drills' is a bouncing new wave song stripped back to its brittle bones, poking fun at the inescapable building developments that riddle both the city and the suburbs, causing endless racket. As Blackman sings: 'The spring drill sings / spirals through the window / And every cell of your being / wants to jump out the window'. Interior Delirium, the debut album from Solo Career, is a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. It's fitting for a project that was borne from musician Annabel Blackman's interest in the uncanny and reflective possibilities of persona. 'The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation' says Blackman. If her first solo EP The Sentimentalist (2021) was a dreamy strut, Interior Delirium is an unruly waltz, where foggy, late-night longing merges with stomping, hilarious, cyborg satire. Interior Delirium was made in-between tours and sessions for Blackman's group Body Type, and served as a counterpoint to playing and writing in a band. She was able to explore a radically different mode of making music – where she was free to obsess and fixate, and let experimentation and imperfection be. As Blackman puts it: 'Solo Career is part control freak, part embellished mess.' The album was performed, recorded, and mixed entirely by Blackman, and marks the release of songs that she's been tinkering with for many years. 'I'd pick up an instrument, make a blip or blop and follow the thread until a song took shape,' says Blackman. 'I started one of the songs almost ten years ago, picked it up and finished it 6 years later, played it at shows for a couple years, and then got so tired of working on it by myself that I just let the jagged edges be, because polished stuff isn't for me anyway.' Lead single 'Venus on Speed Dial' is a synth-driven road song about the discombobulations of desire, and how wanting someone can so often come at the expense of your own personhood: 'This one is dedicated to being messed around by someone and going a bit loopy, and the experience of morphing yourself into whatever you think someone might like you to be,' says Blackman. The song revels in this claustrophobia, with distorted synths, fuzzy guitars and Blackman's disaffected drawl ("What's your ideal/ What's the appeal'), which swaddles the song in both humour and tenderness. In Interior Delirium, alienation is the presiding texture of modern life, manifesting in the most ridiculous way. 'Neo Soul Jazz Afternoon' is a slow-burning dream-pop ballad, which discusses the dullness of easy listening music that has taken over shopping malls and offices. 'Is That U', a wry rock song about women going to extreme lengths to look ageless and exactly like one another, brimming with dark, hilarious imagery: flesh being hacked off, g-string seams, and a 'saturday rhinoplasty with my sister'. How can one stave off the dread? On Interior Delirium, Blackman gives us a tart tasting platter of what's on offer. 'Spenda', released last month alongside a visual masterpiece courtesy of acclaimed artist, Matthew Griffin, is crazed, robotic, electro-pop (replete with jagged guitars and vocals pitched so high they mimic a kid having a temper tantrum) about the agony and addiction of online shopping. 'It's a sad thing when you're caught in the futility of trying to buy someone a present,' says Blackman. But despite the song's mechanical bent, there is a hidden layer of sweetness – it's really a love song about hoping a gift will embody all your affection for someone ('I want to buy you everything,' as Blackman coos). 'Beta' is a buzzing, lo-fi synth song about the allure of the beta blocker: 'it's this gag about taking beta blockers and then becoming some like, hardcore Alpha Dog' says Blackman. If all else fails, you can, like Blackman's father, go see Avatar eight times at the cinemas, which she tenderly chronicles in the sauntering 'Avatar' (featuring Boba Lego AKA Oscar Sulich of Eternal Dust), something of a spiritual sequel to her 2021 track 'Movie'. But despite all these endless alienations and futile cures, connection is still found and fought for. 'GWD' is a pounding, fuzzy anthem to friend and Body Type member Georgia Wilkinson-Derums ('if she likes it I know it's good'). The album ends with the lush and atmospheric 'Bed Knot', an ode to Blackman's boyfriend's bed hair in the morning. But it's also about entanglement – a kind of euphoria that can sometimes stifle. 'It's that feeling of being lovingly trapped,' says Blackman 'being totally wrapped up in each other.' Interior Delirium has a similar enveloping charm: it's a beguiling and twisty record, full of great, scrappy pleasures and droll affection. Since the release of her debut EP The Sentimentalist via Dinosaur City in 2021, Solo Career has been met with critical acclaim from PAPER Magazine, NME, KEXP, WFMU and community radio across Australia. Her song 'Movie' was featured in Fader's Best Songs of 2021, and her EP The Sentimentalist was included in The Guardian's Best Australian Albums of 2021. 'Venus on Speed Dial', the first single from her upcoming album, was added to rotation at FBi Radio and RTR, charted at 4ZZZ, and featured on Rolling Stone Australia's as 'Song You Need to Know'. It's accompanying Gus Macleod-directed music video featured as rage's 'Wild One'. Solo Career's thrilling live sets – where Blackman combines the humour and theatrics of cabaret with her stylish, singular synth-pop – has seen her support Julia Jacklin, The Hard Quartet, Gum and Springtime, among others.
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28-06-2025
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Thus Spoke The Broken Chanteuse, The Lavish Second Album From Fast-rising Punk Group, Wet Kiss, Is Out Via Dinosaur City
[Friday, June 27, 2025] Rising Naarm/Melbourne glam-rock group, Wet Kiss, today release their highly anticipated sophomore album Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse, via Dinosaur City ahead of national tour dates this August. The first run of vinyl is an extremely limited-edition collectors item, with each record individually marked with a kiss of red lipstick, courtesy of the Broken Chanteuse herself, Brenna O. This will not be replicated in future pressings. Secure yours here before they disappear, or order a copy through your local record store. Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse, the antic glam-rock group's second record, is exactly what the title suggests. Our chanteuse here is the sensational jezebel Brenna O: Part Factory Girl, part Fassbinder heroine, all peroxide locks and shiny, skin-tight '$2 dresses', sneering and growling across the stage, mixing greasy punk with cabaret excess. Or as she likes to put it: 'the punk Bette Midler." What is she saying? Well, a few things. Produced by Andy McEwan, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is about the grubby pleasures of hopping on the Melbourne-to-Berlin artist pipeline. It's about 'daddy at the abattoir,' slaughtering piggies. It's about gloomy waits at the gender clinic so you can get your estrogen. It's about dingy, crap clubs, desolate glamour, strutting down the street with your dignity in tatters, upskirting, indulgence and the glory of turning fantasy into reality. The album name is also something of a joke, melding a music journalist's snide comment about the band ('broken chanteuse') with a nod to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The story of Wet Kiss is the story of myth-turned-real. Brenna knew what she wanted – glam-rock mutated for the adderall age – she just needed to find the players. So she put out ads in local rock magazines and found them: daniel dog (guitar), Al Amour (piano), Ben Addiction (bass), Ju Sugar (lead guitar), Ruby Rabbit (drums) and Agnes Wailin' (dubbed 'Screamin'' for their tenacious vocal belts). The band quickly moved in together, quickly put out their beguiling debut record She's So Cool, and quickly built a live reputation. Their performances left crowds gobsmacked: there were floppy bunny ears and buckets of sweat; costume changes and clothes ripped to smithereens; ecstatic howls and hilarious antagonism. The first single off Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse, 'Isn't Music Wonderful', is perhaps the best distillation of the band's sly, stylish lunacy. The song title is yelped in earnest, but is Brenna taking the piss? Music is wonderful – it shoves misfits together, it makes life worth living, it is a fleeting, euphoric high, hard to replicate chemically. But to be a musician is also a pain in the ass, where getting your dues is a long and tortuous path ('When am i gonna be a star / I'm searching in my bag for last nights drag' as Brenna sings). Nothing left to do except nurture dreams and delusions, and smack make-shift opulence onto every surface you can. The song is pure glam bombast: layers of honky-tonk piano, jeering back-up singers and Brenna hissing street-wise bon mots. ' It's about needing to self-actualise. The verses are all about that necessary posturing and self-deprecation, ' says Brenna. Plenty of Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is brimming with this tension – between the hedonistic triumph of inventing oneself, and the dreary texture of modern life. Brenna became well acquainted with this conflict during a long stint in Berlin. Much of the record was written there, and as such, many of the songs are slathered in a thick glob of Weimar decadence. 'Chick from Nowhere' is a janky piano ballad (of pianist Aldo, Brenna affectionately calls them the 'Barry Manilow to my Bette Midler'), that descends into a full-blown rock opera, about picking up lovers in the early morning, relishing the freedom of being an unknown entity in an unknown city. The melody was written back in Melbourne, the band high on ecstasy and suddenly eager to write a really tight pop song. 'It's not really a standard pop song at all' laughs Brenna, 'it's more of a rock saloon song.' A couple of the album tracks deal with disastrous, yet funny and formative, gig mishaps abroad. 'Skirt' is a 70s rock anthem by way of 90s PJ Harvey, laden with whoof whistle samples, serving as a retort to leering audience members but also poking fun at Brenna's on-stage humiliation ('Girls get paid in fascination / even while the night gets wasted'). She had just moved to Berlin and was playing her first solo set, but the show didn't pan out as planned. 'I got really drunk on white wine and it was a disaster. I luckily saved it by bantering. I had my foot up on the amp the whole time, and after the set my friend was like, 'Oh my God, everyone was trying to peer up your skirt.' 'Pink Shadow' is grimy punk burlesque, about the convergence of taking hormones for the first time and trying to insert yourself in a new music scene. 'It's about intertwining the mythos of myself and the mythos of the city,' says Brenna. Elsewhere on the record, Wet Kiss are inserting themselves into lineages, old and new. The speedy punk of 'Metal Silhouette' toys with Burroughs' cut-up method, the drawl of 'Gender Affirmation Clinic,' sounds like something you might find on David Bowie's Space Oddity record. 'Babe' is a sauntering, lovestruck cover of the underappreciated folk song by artist Rick Penta. 'The Gay Band' is sweet glam magic, a glimmering anthem with lip-smacking vocals, about the death of friends and the metaphorical death of an old self. 'I want to carry on that spirit of dirty street decadence, but also the great tradition of self-invention,' says Brenna about the album. Wet Kiss catapulted onto the scene with the release of their debut album She's So Cool via Dero Arcade (cumgirl8, Divide & Dissolve) in 2022. In a somewhat shock move, Olver and daniel dog relocated to Berlin just a month after the album dropped. When plans of their 2024 return became public (alongside whispers of a new record), a frenzy was ignited with fans and media alike. One year on, Wet Kiss have played Melbourne Town Hall for RISING's sold-out DAY TRIPPER festivalalongside Bar Italia and HTRK, showcased at SXSW Sydney, made their 'Sup debut for Golden Plains alongside PJ Harvey and Fontaines D.C. and were invited to throw a secret house party for Dark Mofo 's Night Mass earlier this month. On top of that, they've scored support slots with Amyl & the Sniffers, RVG, Spike F*ck, CIVIC, Floodlights and Private Function, this momentum has been bolstered by critical acclaim from influential outlets like Sydney Morning Herald, Gusher Magazine, Frankie Magazine, Beat Magazine, Rolling Stone, Gusher Magazine, BBC 6, WFMU, 3RRR, PBS, among others. You can dunk yourself in Wet Kiss' filthy, lavish depths as they tour the new album across Australia this August.
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08-06-2025
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Solo Career Drops 'Spenda', An Ode To Online Shopping; Debut Album Interior Delirium Out July 11 Via Dinosaur City
[ Wednesday, June 4, 2025] Solo Career, the beguiling bedroom-pop project of Body Type's Annabel Blackman shares new single ' Spenda ', alongside a Matthew Griffin-directed clip, where Blackman makes an appearance on Chanel Cruise Collection catwalk. It's the second taste of her debut album Interior Delirium, due Friday, July 11 via Dinosaur City, following lead single 'Venus on speed dial'. 'Spenda' is crazed, robotic, electro-pop (replete with jagged guitars and vocals pitched so high they mimic a kid having a temper tantrum) about the agony and addiction of online shopping. 'It's a sad thing when you're caught in the futility of trying to buy someone a present,' says Blackman. But despite the song's mechanical bent, there is a hidden layer of sweetness – it's really a love song about hoping a gift will embody all your affection for someone ('I want to buy you everything', as Blackman coos). Interior Delirium, the debut album from Solo Career, is a glorious and sly synth pop record about the absurdity of identity – how we perform for others and ourselves, the puppetry that plays out across culture, and the freak impulses that startle our sense of self. It's fitting for a project that was borne from musician Annabel Blackman's interest in the uncanny and reflective possibilities of persona. 'The album revolves around awkwardness, earnestness, gripe-picking, lustful stewing, play and self-deprecation' says Blackman. If her first solo EP The Sentimentalist (2021) was a dreamy strut, Interior Delirium is an unruly waltz, where foggy, late-night longing merges with stomping, hilarious, cyborg satire. Interior Delirium was made in-between tours and sessions for Blackman's group Body Type, and served as a counterpoint to playing and writing in a band. She was able to explore a radically different mode of making music – where she was free to obsess and fixate, and let experimentation and imperfection be. As Blackman puts it: 'Solo Career is part control freak, part embellished mess. ' The album was performed, recorded and mixed entirely by Blackman (who also designed the album art) and marks the highly anticipated release of songs she's been tinkering with for many years. 'I'd pick up an instrument, make a blip or blop and follow the thread until a song took shape' says Blackman. 'I started one of the songs almost ten years ago, picked it up and finished it six years later, played it at shows for a couple years, and then got so tired of working on it by myself that I just let the jagged edges be, because polished stuff isn't for me anyway.' Since the release of her debut EP The Sentimentalist via Dinosaur City in 2021, Solo Career has been met with critical acclaim from PAPER Magazine, NME, KEXP, WFMU and community radio across Australia. Her song 'Movie' was featured in Fader's Best Songs of 2021, and her EP The Sentimentalist was included in The Guardian's Best Australian Albums of 2021. ' Venus on Speed Dial ', the first single from her upcoming album, was added to rotation at FBi Radio and RTR, charted at 4ZZZ, and featured on Rolling Stone Australia's as 'Song You Need to Know'. It's accompanying Gus Macleod-directed music video featured as rage's 'Wild One'. Solo Career's thrilling live sets – where Blackman combines the humour and theatrics of cabaret with her stylish, singular synth-pop – has seen her support Julia Jacklin, The Hard Quartet, Gum and Springtime, among others.
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06-06-2025
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Wet Kiss Share Piano Ballad-Turn-Rock Saloon Single, 'Chick From Nowhere'
[Friday, June 6, 2025] Rising queer punk outfit Wet Kiss share 'Chick From Nowhere', the latest single from their upcoming album Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse, out June 27 on limited-edition lipstick-smacked vinyl via Dinosaur City. The new single comes alongside the announcement of an album tour this August, with stops in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia. 'Chick from Nowhere' is a janky piano ballad (of pianist Aldo, who Brenna affectionately calls "the Barry Manilow to my Bette Midler'), that descends into a full-blown rock opera. It's about picking up lovers in the early morning, relishing the freedom of being an unknown entity in an unknown city. The melody was written back in Melbourne, the band high on ecstasy and suddenly eager to write a really tight pop song. 'It's not really a standard pop song at all,' laughs Brenna, 'it's more of a rock saloon song.' Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is exactly what the title suggests. Our chanteuse here is the sensational jezebel Brenna O: Part Factory Girl, part Fassbinder heroine, all peroxide locks and shiny, skin-tight '$2 dresses', sneering and growling across the stage, mixing greasy punk with cabaret excess. What is she saying? Well, a few things. Produced by Andrew Huhtanen McEwan, Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is about the grubby pleasures of hopping on the Melbourne-to-Berlin artist pipeline. It's about 'daddy at the abattoir,' slaughtering piggies. It's about gloomy waits at the gender clinic so you can get your estrogen. It's about dingy, crap clubs, desolate glamour, strutting down the street with your dignity in tatters, upskirting, indulgence and the glory of turning fantasy into reality. The album name is also something of a joke, melding a music journalist's snide comment about the band ('broken chanteuse') with a nod to Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra. The story of Wet Kiss is the story of myth-turned-real. Brenna knew what she wanted — glam-rock mutated for the adderall age — she just needed to find the players. So she put out ads in local rock magazines and found them: daniel dog (they/them - guitar), Al Amour (he/him - piano), Ben Addiction (he/they - bass), Ju Sugar (he/they - lead guitar), Ruby Rabbit (they/them - drums) and Agnes Wailin' (they/them - dubbed 'Screamin'' for their tenacious vocal belts). The band quickly moved in together, quickly put out their beguiling debut record She's So Cool, and quickly built a live reputation. Their performances left crowds gobsmacked: there were floppy bunny ears and buckets of sweat; costume changes and clothes ripped to smithereens; ecstatic howls and hilarious antagonism. Plenty of Thus Spoke the Broken Chanteuse is brimming with this tension – between the hedonistic triumph of inventing oneself, and the dreary texture of modern life. Brenna became well acquainted with this conflict during a long stint in Berlin. Much of the record was written there, and as such, many of the songs are slathered in a thick glob of Weimar decadence. 'I want to carry on that spirit of dirty street decadence, but also the great tradition of self-invention,' says Brenna. Wet Kiss catapulted onto the scene with the release of their debut album She's So Cool via Dero Arcade (cumgirl8, Divide & Dissolve) in 2022. In a somewhat shock move, Olver and daniel dog relocated to Berlin just a month after the album dropped. When plans of their 2024 return became public (alongside whispers of a new record), a frenzy was ignited with fans and media alike. In the nine months since, Wet Kiss have played Melbourne Town Hall for RISING's sold-out DAY TRIPPER festival alongside Bar Italia and HTRK, showcased at SXSW Sydney and made their 'Sup debut for Golden Plains alongside PJ Harvey and Fontaines D.C. On top of that, they've scored support slots with Amyl & the Sniffers, RVG, Spike F*ck, CIVIC, Floodlights and Private Function. This momentum has been bolstered by critical acclaim from influential outlets like Bandcamp, Beat Magazine, Rolling Stone, Gusher Magazine, BBC 6, WFMU, 3RRR, PBS and among others. You can dunk yourself in Wet Kiss' filthy, lavish depths this August as they tour the album across Australia's east coast. Ticket links and more information below. Upcoming Shows
