Collarbones

"It’s hard not to envision yourself on a dancefloor somewhere, lasers and fog machines in full force, leaping in time"

Heartbreakers v Beatmakers: Collarbones team up with Oscar Key Sung on a new track.. Sydney’s Marcus Whale and Adelaide’s Travis Cook are the wonderful Collarbones, a producer duo who’ve been making genre-defying, forward-thinking music together for nearly eight years now. I never heard their first album but their second album, 2011's Die Young, featuring HTML Flowers and Guerre, is a firm favourite of mine - a gem of a broken R & B / experimental club / house thing, thematically built around heartbreak and teen nostalgia, and structurally built on glitchy, post dubstep beats. It sits somewhere between James Blake, Burial and The Weekend, at times moving torwards the more big-room weirdo-house of Teengirl Fantasy, and full of the kind of jams that are nice to listen to when you come home at 3am. Seeing Collarbones perform live at Outside In Festival in Sydney a couple of years back, and then again last year at The Bird in Perth, have both been totally memorable experiences - the boys b

Die Young is not an album for every situation, but it comes close. And it’s totally worth the effort.

Collarbones will join the electronic rock trio on the road

There are worse ways to cap off your day than with a cut of glitchy R&B from this duo.

Die Young is an intriguing collection of songs that rewards repeat listens; probably even moreso with the impending release of a companion short film about teen ghosts caught in limbo adding weight to the album.

"It started out of the dead celebrities thing... That track, when he put it on Soundcloud, had a picture of River Phoenix; not necessarily that it had anything to do with him, aside from this sense of reminiscence about the song."

You feel like walking the streets alone late at night, then Die Young houses the jams for you.

“I play with the elements of the song live and fuck it up a little bit, alter it slightly and play drums over the top of parts of the song. I don’t want to make it too easy on myself;