BLANK REALM (FIRE Records) + HOOKWORMS

Hailing from Brisbane, Blank Realm consists of three siblings, Daniel, Luke and Sarah Spencer, and Luke Walsh. Renowned for their ecstatic live performances and boundary-pushing, yet listenable records, the group have released several sold out recordings on labels including Not Not Fun, Digitialis, Albert's Basement and MusicYourMindWillLoveYou.

The band's formidable live reputation has been earned over the course of over 200 live performances with acts such as the Kurt Vile, Wild Flag, Zola Jesus, Sun Araw, The Clean, Robert Forster, Wet Hair, Jandek, Grouper, Damo Suzuki and Royal Headache.

Their new album, Grassed In, follows last year's critically acclaimed 'Go Easy'. 'Grassed In' is an album packed with soaring psych melodies, dark love-stained lyrics and one of the sharpest pop records to emerge from the current Australian underground renaissance.

Having moved on from their more open-ended experimental beginnings, Blank Realm have veered towards songs in the manner of late period Big Star, The Zombies, or Echo and the Bunnymen, all refracted through a grimy basement lens.

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"the greatest live band in Australia (scratch that, the world)" 
GUARDIAN

"Blank Realm generate scruffy, VU's-Sister-Ray-loving grooves, coloured up with blooping synths, and yowling, way-off vocals" 
MOJO

"Grassed In is both beautifully stupid and much much smarter than you think" 
THE WIRE

"skewed psychedelic genius and warped grooviness" 
GUARDIAN

"Blank Realm swing from post-punk to garage to psych-rock between segues, touching a number of stones along the way — Flying Nuns' roster, Lou Reed's languid enunciation, jangly, organ-splashed melodies — without sounding contrived" 
SPIN MAGAZINE

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MOJO

"balancing the arty with the party to make for a set of danceable, hook-filled songs that bubble and bloom with an almost biological rampancy, shooting out tendrils of strange, snaking melody in every direction like vines enveloping a ruin - 4*" 
GUARDIAN

"A cracking selection of scuzzy, fuzzy, psych-rock songs that recall Royal Trux and Sonic Youth. - 8/10" 
UNCUT

"they produce a nerve-jangling, occasionally fuzzed-out psychedelic stagger… with echo-slathered male and female vocals… yelping and wailing like ghosts haunting a party" 
THE WIRE