New Estate

Melbourne scrap-poppers New Estate hit Sydney and Newcastle for album-launch shows.

New Estate’s fourth album Recovery could be considered a definition of suburban Melbourne DIY garage music. Samson McDougall talks to the band’s Mia Schoen (and gets a brief comment from bassist Toby Dutton) about keeping shit real in a crazy world.

Where studio-backed outfits would persevere to get that extra depth, New Estate just nudge it over the line, content with letting the lo-fi ambience speak for itself.