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Rhinestones

by HTRK

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Oscar Coyoli
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Oscar Coyoli Un silencio que se extiende por las calles, nocturno. Favorite track: Kiss Kiss and Rhinestones.
Zen Sounds
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Zen Sounds Album of the year 2021. Gothic dreampop meets industrial and ambient. As if the Cocteau Twins had jammed with Grouper and Chris & Cosey. Favorite track: Real Headfuck.
Micah Young
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Micah Young Perfectly encapsulates how I've been feeling lately in life, this "strange otherness" and extreme disassociation that I cannot express. This song goes out to my closest friends and brothers who have lost friends to death and struggling with unresolved tramua and suffering endlessly like me Favorite track: Reverse Déjà vu.
goalloy
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goalloy Saw you guys in Philadelphia this week and every song, from this album especially, translated so well for live performance. This album is full of so many earworms, and I am impressed with the staying power of these simple songs. Favorite track: Sunlight Feels like Bee Stings.
birdspanker
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birdspanker Of all the things HTRK could have done next, acoustic guitar would never have made my list of predictions. This is a surprising and lovely album, full of tenderness and beauty with their trademark undercurrent of obsession. Favorite track: Sunlight Feels like Bee Stings.
C.S. Nicholson
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C.S. Nicholson Building on the flawless Venus In Leo, Rhinestones shows how versatile the band that once released Nostalgia really is. With this album, HTRK revitalised acoustic singer-songwriter fare with their fresh take on recording guitars. Favorite track: Real Headfuck.
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1.
I can make you glitter I can make you feel glitter than this Kiss kiss and rhinestones I‘m covered in kisses From head to toe oh oh Oh oh oh If you take my hand I can make you glitter I can make you feel glitter than this Kiss kiss and rhinestones I‘m covered in kisses From head to toe oh oh Oh oh oh If you take my hand Kiss kiss and rhinestones If you take my hand
2.
Valentina 03:21
Valentina is a rose blood red As her petals fall on my bed A familiar thorn in my hand Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger The uncanny coincidence of the night The uncanny coincidence of the night The thoughts are yours and mine The thoughts are yours and mine Valentina is a rose blood red As her petals fall on my bed A familiar thorn in my hand Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger The uncanny coincidence of the night The uncanny coincidence of the night The thoughts are yours and mine The thoughts are yours and mine The thoughts are yours and mine The thoughts are yours and mine I can hardly hear it Like a hush hush secret I can hardly see it I can hardly feel it As you push it in further Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it from my finger Can you remove it
3.
Baby it's fine, baby it's fine You interrupt my sleep again When you visit like it's no big thing Dream diary Sets the mood for the morning light Blue morning Oh my hair windswept You tell me that you don't regret Baby it's fine, baby it's fine You're a premonition just in time And you interrupt my sleep again When you visit like it's no big thing And you set my mood Dream diary Sets the mood for the morning light Blue morning Oh my hair windswept You tell me that you don't regret (You don’t regret) Dream diary Sets the mood for the morning light 4:05 a.m. You interrupt my sleep again If you wanted to Hang out with me during the day Sunlight feels like If you wanted to Hang out with me during the day Sunlight feels like If you wanted to Sunlight feels like bee stings (And you set my mood) Sunlight feels like bee stings (And you set my mood)
4.
Siren Song 00:49
Let’s just do somethin’ for fun You are just a siren song Let’s just do somethin’ for fun You are just a siren song Let’s just do somethin’ for fun You are just a siren song Let’s just do somethin’ for fun
5.
Fast Friend 03:06
What a connection to make And it gets hard to take Fast friend, split ends With so many red flags Just makes you seem interesting What a connection to make Expressions to fake Keep up the pretence With so many loose ends Just makes you seem interesting Don’t you think the way we met Is kind of unreal I’d say for a reason Don’t you think the way we talk is About all the real stuff I tell you everything I tell you everything What a house on fire Crossed electric wire A bat out of hell With so many meltdowns Just makes you seem interesting What a friendship shrine Worship double time It’s the way I think about it With so many undones Just makes you seem interesting Don’t you think the way we met Is kind of unreal I’d say for a reason Don’t you think the way we talk is About all the real stuff I tell you everything I tell you everything Are you OK Are you alright? Let’s just do something for fun It’s the way i think about it Are you OK Are you alright? Let’s just do something for fun
6.
You get yourself unstuck You gonna turn into a heartbreaker You think you lost your way Oh no you said yourself just now You want your friend to stay Without the words to say So here’s a real heads up You gonna turn into a real headfuck And here’s an icebreaker You gonna turn into a heartbreaker Don’t mess around with young girls’ hearts Oh no you said yourself just now You want the world to stay Without the words to say So here’s a real heads up You’re a real headfuck And here’s an icebreaker You gonna turn into a heartbreaker You’ve gone and lost your way Without the words to say ah hey The world spins in your way Oh no you said yourself just now Oh no you said yourself just now Oh no you said yourself just now Oh no you said yourself just now Oh no you said yourself just now
7.
I recognise this feeling, so untrue You're acting like a reverse déjà vu And how can I bury you In my mind It was a different time With a different point of view And I find I recognise this feeling, so untrue You're acting like a reverse déjà vu And how can I bury you In my mind It was a different time With a different point of view And I find I recognise these feelings, so untrue Ah I didn’t see this coming Nor did you You're acting like a reverse déjà vu And how can I And how can I Bury you
8.
Your eyes are as green As a serpent's spell As you fix me straight to hell I’ll just get my lipstick And my handbag as well If you stare too long It sweetens everything As it slowly starts to sink in A colour I've never seen I'm just saying Your eyes are as green As a serpent's spell As you fix me straight to hell I’ll just get my lipstick And my handbag as well If you stare too long It sweetens everything As it hits like the first thing I see in colour i've never seen
9.
You can give me what I want You can give me what I need (And I need) I can give you what you want I can give you what you need (And I need) Walking East London There's a certain type of light Gilbert and George Eat at the same place every night I’m walking the streets with my best friend I gotta lot of luck around me now Is that the last of it Can I trust it I gotta lot of luck around me now Is that the last of it I’ll only trust you I’ll put my trust in you Walking East London There's a certain type of light Gilbert and George Eat at the same place every night I’m walking the streets with my best friend Some things are not like the others Did I ever say Some friends are not like the others Did I ever say Did I ever say Did I ever say thank you My best friend Did I ever say thank you

about

The latest by iconic slowburn Australian duo HTRK is an elegant nine song suite of windswept emotion and heartbreak noir, crafted in skeletal arrangements of guitar, voice, metronomes, and FX. Inspired by a recent infatuation with “eerie and gothic country music,” Rhinestones moves from whispered lament to acoustic eulogy to downtempo vignettes, tracing muted embers of loss and lust through haunted city streets. Taking cues from the economy and brevity of western folk but skewed through a narcotic, nocturnal lens, the album maps enigmatic badlands of strung out beauty and lengthening shadows.

Nigel Yang cites friendship as a central muse, “particularly the forging of it, and its potential for new feelings of telepathy and trust.” Jonnine Standish’s wounded, alluring vocals echo similar mysteries of connection and unknown crossroads, poetic but direct, dream diaries faded with age and rain. The rhinestones of the title evoke the glittering plastic of cowboy glamor, yet “made precious somehow;” Standish cites as an example a baby blue star brooch from Texas, gifted to her “from a stoned friend on New Year’s Eve 10 years ago in Brighton – cheap keepsakes can be more valuable than diamonds.”

Even for a group as enduringly versatile as HTRK, Rhinestones is a revelation, condensing their lyrical alchemy to its simmering, magnetic essence. “Sunlight Feels Like Bee Stings,” “Reverse Déjà vu,” and “Gilbert and George” in particular are masterpieces of drama, delivery, and distillation, dried flowers clouded by smoke, the candle’s flame flickering but unforgotten: “Some things are not like the others / Some friends are not like the others / did I ever say / did I ever say / did I ever say thank you?”

credits

released September 17, 2021

Written and produced by Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang.
Recorded in the Dandenong Ranges, April-May 2021.

We acknowledge and pay our respects to the traditional owners of the land, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation.

Bass on Real Headfuck by Conrad Standish
Mixed by Nigel Yang
Mastered by Joe Carra at Crystal Mastering
Photo by Josh Hourigan
Layout by Luke Fraser
Design by Jonnine Standish with assistance from Thalia Economo

Supported by the City of Melbourne Flash Forward project
Project coordination by Amber Arizono
Series curated and produced by Miles Brown

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