Start Together are Gerard, James, Emma & Demetry. While clearly influenced by genre pioneer bands like Sonic Youth, The Cure and New Order, the Meanjin (Brisbane) four-piece Start Together create their own unique brand of shoegaze/post-everything/guitar wonderfulness. In 2018 Start Together released three singles independently; Xmal Inveigle, a post-rock slow burner, Being Born, an almost obnoxious, high-energy post-punk assault to the ears, and 9617 Graham Chapman, a comparatively more sedate and reflective shoegaze track. 2019 saw the release of their single Az Nem Verhat to complement a run of highly anticipated live shows, including supporting local favourites Hatchie and Sweater Curse on their respective tours.
Emerging from the post-COVID blues with a full-length release that has been in the slow-cooker, Start Together are now ready to present their first offerings from their long-awaited debut album. Released in June, Separate Beds is an intricately weaved tapestry of pop hooks and call-and-response choruses blended to create a dark, gorgeous guitar-driven soundscape. On the new single, Skeptics – a gorgeous instrumental – the quartet once again demonstrate their knack for weaving pop hooks with more intricate songwriting ideas to create a glistening, guitar-driven journey. Both songs are early tastes of their long-awaited debut album (due early September).

Within the opening moments of Skeptics, the reprise of reverb-drenched guitar is bound to usher fans of shoegaze/dream-pop genre giants, such as Slowidve, DIIV & My Bloody Valentine, to lean deep into the listening experience of this beautiful and impressively delivered instrumental. When asked what works or events inspired the initial ideas for the song, Gerard (lead guitar) remarks simply that “it was an invocation”, which you could argue, is reflected in the mood of the track itself.

Skeptics will be out digitally on July 7th and a video will follow on July 14th. The album Founder in Oddity will be out in September on 4000 Records.
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