“Melbourne five-piece singing in English and Russian — krautrock motorik, shoegaze fuzz, new wave synths, and Soviet baroque pop collapsed into one hypnotic, genre-defiant sound.”
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Curatorial notes
Kosmetika began when Veeka Nazarova, a vocalist from Khabarovsk in Russia's Far East, posted on Facebook in Auckland looking for collaborators and found guitarist Mike Ellis. They relocated to Melbourne and assembled a five-piece — James Lynch (drums, also in Delivery), Dom Moore (bass, also in Eggy), and Jake Suriano (synth, also in Dr Sure's Unusual Practice) — that draws on the full breadth of...
