HTRK release new single "Swimming Pool" + b-side "Puddles on my Pillow"

HTRK share new songs "Swimming Pool" and “Puddles on My Pillow"; playing select US shows this spring

"Few Australian bands have been as influential as HTRK." — The Guardian   "Over the course of their two decades, their music has retained its core sound...singing of the pleasure and pain of romance in all its complexity over understated, cracked rhythms." — The Quietus   "The Melbourne group's music has grown lighter, gentler, and more inviting with every release." - Pitchfork   HTRK, the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, walked into their 21st year on reflective terms. Alongside a series of performances and installations throughout 2024, sharing the covers/remixes EP String of Hearts featuring artists like Loraine James and Liars, and announcing a repress of their 2009 full-length debut, Marry Me Tonight, as well as their most recent album, 2021’s beloved Rhinestones. Now, HTRK share their first sign of new material in several years, the drifting, sensuous ooze of "Swimming Pool," a slow dissolution into serenely uncertain and diaphanous depths, and its stunning B-side, "Puddles on My Pillow."

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As ever in their world, the states are polarised on "Swimming Pool" — romance versus lonerism, racing heart versus churning mind, charged simplicity versus disarming complexity — all untethered from meaning and reduced to pure, unfettered feeling. A dappled noir grandeur teeming with uncertainty, a singular depiction of unperturbed bliss littered with the suggestion of spectres beneath the ripples. "Swimming Pool" is a momentary dose of calm, or perhaps a harbinger of tumult to come. Always in flux, always poised to melt, HTRK continue to sound out splendid turmoil as only they can.    HTRK 2025 Shows 03.30 New York, NY - Knockdown Center 04.02 Kingston, NY - Tubby's 04.04 Philadelphia, PA - TRANSCENDENTAL Secret Location 04.06 Miami, FL - The Ground Miami 04.08 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever 04.09 Los Angeles - The Masonic Lodge Hollywood Forever 04.30 Melbourne, Australia - Forum Melbourne 05.10 Castlemaine, Australia - Theatre Royal

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