What is your story? How did you get together and start playing?

We met at college and started playing in the experimental music scenes in Australia, and pretty quickly we figured out we worked better with each other than with anyone else. The first song we wrote together, Rizz handed me a piece of paper with lots of words and drawings on it. It didn’t make any literal sense, but it had a really strong vibe and said a lot without actual direct meaning. It was so rich with possibilities, and Rizz was so open and enthusiastic about creating – so I filtered that into something that started to sound like a song… with words and some music that kind of described the world she had just put on paper – and we went from there. It’s always been that same kind of dynamic, even as we’ve gotten more experienced in the craft there’s a childish openness we work to maintain.

How would you describe your music?

We call it ‘Death Pop.’ It’s somewhere in between a few genres. It’s got shadows of rock, goth, post-punk and electronic music, which make up the musical skeleton…but it’s not obviously any one of those things – we often take what we need from this and that, without ever sticking to one genre completely. We like to use musical vibes and lyrics that create images or make you think, without always spelling out an obvious concept…it all kind of goes back to the piece of paper Rizz handed me in the beginning that said something without really saying anything.

You have collaborated with several fashion brands before, how did this work for you?

We don’t really come from that world, but it turns out our music works well for it…I suppose we can relate to the elegance of high fashion in terms of what we try for in our music. The first thing we did was with Comme des Garçons, for their Paris Men’s Fashion Week runway show in 2019. We had never done any live scoring before, we were very nervous – but two days before the show, during a meeting to prep the looks and music, Rei Kawakubo gave us a literal ‘thumbs up’ while listening to what we had prepared.