Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty, and Four Winds is the only South Coast stop on their first national tour. Featuring Adalita (Magic Dirt), Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad’s brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love.
One summer’s day at the Fitzroy Pool, drummer and producer Marty Brown had a spark of inspiration. Sensing a shared instinct for making music that felt “simple and immediate,” he rang three fellow musicians—and Bleak Squad was born. What followed was a slow-burn creative ritual: the four artists slipping into rehearsal rooms whenever life allowed, trading riffs, half-formed songs and sonic experiments.
Their sessions were loose, unhurried and full of discovery. “From the very first jam we gelled,” recalls Adalita, describing an atmosphere free of pressure and full of possibility. Before they knew it, those scattered sessions had coalesced into a full album—“suddenly we realised we’d become a band.” Most tracks of their first album, Strange Love, were laid down in just a couple of takes.
Strange Love sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey. The result is a nine-song set of love, loss and lonesomeness, set to fizzing guitars, slippery basslines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner’s guitar.
With Strange Love, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape.
Bleak Squad brings that raw, immediate energy to Four Winds —an unmissable chance to experience a band whose music was born from spontaneity, chemistry and pure creative instinct.
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