Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smouldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, aka HTRK [‘Hate Rock']. Across two decades, their sound has shape-shifted but it has never wavered in its poetic gravity.
HTRK’s songs are often coded as fantasies. venturing deeper into the heady expanses of dub dream and memory. THEY make music that channels not just the heaviness of the world or the beauty of it, but the surreal humour and inexplicable serendipity of it, too. cataloguing desire, intimacy, and spirit like few others. htrk developed as a 3 piece, but tragically founding member sean stewart PASSED while the band were living in london, IN 2010, LONG before his time.
HTRK’s albums have been released by: Fire, Blast First Petite, Boomkat Editions, and Ghostly International. For their most recent full-length, Rhinestones, they founded their own imprint, N&J Blueberries.
