Naarm/Melbourne trio Sudden Debt are set to release their self-titled debut album, out 1st August on New Weird Australia. Exploring the space between bleak pop, minimalist post-punk and dissonant noise-rock, the project creates something hypnotically abstract, yet strangely danceable. Sudden Debt strip music back to a form that is raw, unflinching, and intimate.
The record is the product of instinct, limitation, and with that, total freedom. There was no blueprint, no fixed roles, no prior agenda, just three people creating their music. With vocals improvised in a single take or built from fragments of stream-of-consciousness, and instrumentation twisted through tremolo, delay, drum pads and vocal effects, ‘Sudden Debt’ is both immediate and elusive.
After returning from extensive touring with previous band Heart Beach (Spunk! Records / Rough Skies / Kingfisher Bluez), bandleader Jonathon McCarthy reached out to nearly 50 old friends with the aim of creating a new project — with no assumptions about who would play what, or what it would sound like. Enlisting members of Ivy St (Wireless) and others, the band that emerged took shape organically and instinctively, driven more by chemistry and experimentation than any fixed vision. The album was recorded at Head Gap just before it tragically burnt down. It was recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by Finn Keane.
