Venus in Leo

by HTRK

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ichibata HTRK keeps invoking deep feelings within me. Venus will be another album to accompany me through my life. Favorite track: New Year's Eve.

C.S. Nicholson My second favourite HTRK album. The aural equivalent of a painkiller, with the pain still aching distantly beneath the buzz. Nobody sounds like HTRK! Favorite track: Venus in Leo.

warmerclimate There's something about this album that just hits me right in the feels. It is melancholy, wistful and evocative. Thank you HTRK, you are sublime! Favorite track: Dying of Jealousy.

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1.	Into the Drama 03:51	buy track
2.	Mentions 06:22	buy track
3.	Venus in Leo 05:46	buy track
4.	You Know How to Make Me Happy 03:47 video	buy track
5.	Dream Symbol 05:20	buy track
6.	Hit 'Em Wit Da Hee 03:17	buy track
7.	Dying of Jealousy 05:16	buy track
8.	New Year's Day 03:56	buy track
9.	New Year's Eve 04:21	buy track

about

The fourth album from HTRK, the duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang, arrives five years on from 2014's Psychic 9-5 Club. While some much-loved HTRK hallmarks remain—the combination of space and intimacy, the unmistakable interplay between Yang's guitars and Standish's vocals—Venus in Leo differs markedly in its energy, returning to HTRK’s underground rock past with the stylistic playfulness and variety of a modern mixtape.

Over the soft strums of acoustic guitar, the album’s introduction, “Into the Drama,” posits a theory that “what was once considered self-sabotage could be revisited as being under the influence of Venus in Leo,” Standish explains. Fingerpicked guitar loops rise slowly and fall over a cold, brittle beat. Previously released lovesong “Mentions” finds Standish exploring the lack of physical intimacy in the social media age. Elsewhere, there are emotional highs, like on the kaleidoscopic single “You Know How to Make Me Happy,” which details a suspended state of ecstasy, Standish commending her partner’s conscious efforts to prop her up with compliments. “New Year’s Day” traces a flimsy resolution to get healthier, instantly busted by an evening of debauchery, recalling “the worst possible start to the year with bad friends and bad behavior.” The silver lining is the sunrise: “pink, red, orange, white, peach” Standish repeats as the track laps with a velvety, hypnotic refrain.

Archetypal themes emerge as the band explore the makings of personality. Standish revisits her childhood home in a recurring dream (“Dream Symbol”), a doomed first kiss (“New Year’s Eve”) and high drama (“Venus in Leo”). Recorded more or less live in HTRK’s home studio in the Dandenong Ranges outside of Melbourne, the album’s simple production reveals gorgeous, toned-back arrangements and an evolving, idiosyncratic songcraft.

It's been ten years since HTRK released their breakthrough first album, Marry Me Tonight. The band has undergone profound changes, with the first two albums released amid the deaths of close friend and collaborator Rowland S. Howard and HTRK co-founder Sean Stewart. Psychic 9-5 Club set them on a path of self-discovery, and Venus in Leo marks a spirited new chapter by one of the most distinctive bands of the past decade.

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released August 30, 2019

Produced by HTRK.
Mixed by Nigel Yang with assistance from Jeremy Yang.
Mastered and cut by Rashad Becker at Dubplates and Mastering.
Supported by Creative Victoria

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