Bleak Squad, the new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty – the unlikely quartet of 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) – today release their brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love, on Poison City Records.
It follows the release of three singles, Lost My Head, Strange Love and Blue Signs and the band’s first ever two live shows, which happened early this month in regional Victoria.
The release accompanies an announcement that Bleak Squad will play an exclusive Tasmanian show on Friday, October 17, at The Unconformity, one of Australia’s most distinctive and daring cultural festivals, in Queenstown on the state’s rugged West Coast.
The Tasmanian show joins Bleak Squad shows at City Recital Hall in Sydney on Saturday, October 11, and the Recital Centre in Melbourne on Thursday, October 16. In Sydney, Bleak Squad will be joined by the revered pair of Ed Kuepper & Jim White for what is undoubtedly one of the great double bills of the year.
