Presents

Touring together this September are two of the most intelligent bands around today: Xiu Xiu and High Places.

There is a brutal intimacy to Xiu Xiu work, with songs that are both refined and intricate yet melodically vibrant, proving art can be pop and pop can challenge you to look inside yourself. Their songs are a sort of exposé of responsibility, fear, healing, and societal roles all wrapped in rich gothic pop sound.

High Places’ use range of aural layers: bells and bird calls over a wash of ocean waves; mallets hitting mixing bowls over treated guitar and glockenspiel; Mary's reflective vocals over Rob's homemade beats. The result is an imaginative and spacious amalgamation of sounds with a unique, almost Caribbean undertone that is as immediate as it is refreshing.

Xiu Xiu and High Places together is undoubtedly one of the most exciting combinations you’ll see touring this year.

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“New Zealand's Surf City are getting such big buzz that the hype has made its way halfway around the world.” – NEW YORK'S OH MY ROCKNESS

New Zealand's Surf City returns to Australia to support the release of their debut album Kudos (out on Popfrenzy on September 3rd).

Three years in the making Kudos features eleven tracks filled with warm, fuzzed up and frenetic guitar pop. It's a sound pioneered by fellow Kiwi bands like The Clean and The Bats in the early 1980's. But, Surf City have have moved the sound forwards into the new millennium. The album was recorded and mixed by the band themselves over the last year and a half mostly in bedrooms, basements and various studios.

Having already shared the stage with Interpol, MGMT, Dinosaur Jr, Battles as well as playing at the Big Day Out and Laneway Festival, Surf City are back in Australia better and louder than ever.

Surf City's debut album Kudos is out on September 3rd

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Lauded psychedelic pop practitioners Broadcast have succumbed to the call of their Australian fans and are joining the procession of the worlds best, biggest and brightest drawn in by the down under summer. December will see Broadcast’s tour Australia for the very first time.

Birmingham natives Trish Kennan and James Cargill have been the ever-present driving force behind Broadcast since 1995. Although Broadcast has taken on several different evolutions since its formation, growing to a very cosy six piece at one stage, Kennan and Cargill have always remained as Broadcast’s beating heart. Fuelled by their joint affinity for film, and electronic culture, Broadcast’s brand of electronica, samples and sci-fi synths provide a hypnotic soundtrack, balanced with the warmth of Kennan’s dreamy 60’s vocals.

Signed to the iconic Warp label, Flying Lotus, Grizzly Bear, Atlas Sound and Dangermouse, are counted amongst Broadcast’s growing fanbase, with Dangermouse sampling Broadcast on ‘Poem of Dead Song’ on the DM & Gemini album ‘Ghetto Pop Life’. Regularly drawing comparisons to a darker and edgier Stereolab, 60’s psychedelic band The United States of America’s influences are present throughout the Broadcast body of work

Featured on the soundtracks of ‘Austin Powers’, ‘Ma Femme est une Actrice’, ‘21’ and ‘Morvern Callar’, the engaging appeal of Broadcast’s psychedelic pop has enabled them to comfortably exist in the spheres of their passions; music and film. On the small screen ‘The L-Word’, ‘Skins’ and ‘CSI’ have all featured songs from Broadcast, with Simpson’s creator Matt Groening also hand picking Broadcast to perform at this years edition of All Tomorrow’s Parties in England for which he is curator, as well as the influential Sonar festival.

Popfrenzy are proud to present Broadcast in their debut Australian tour.

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