HTRK · Rhinestones

Label: N&J Blueberries / Genre: Indie · Psyche

TRACKS FOR RHINESTONES
1. Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones
2. Valentina
3. Sunlight Feels like Bee Stings
4. Siren Song
5. Fast Friend
6. Real Headfuck
7. Reverse Déjà vu
8. Straight to Hell
9. Gilbert and George

The latest by iconic slowburn Australian duo HTRK is an elegant nine song suite of windswept emotion and heartbreak noir, crafted in skeletal arrangements of guitar, voice, metronomes, and FX. Inspired by a recent infatuation with “eerie and gothic country music,” Rhinestones moves from whispered lament to acoustic eulogy to downtempo vignettes, tracing muted embers of loss and lust through haunted city streets. Taking cues from the economy and brevity of western folk but skewed through a narcotic, nocturnal lens, the album maps enigmatic badlands of strung out beauty and lengthening shadows.

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