GUT HEALTH ANNOUNCE EAST COAST TOUR DATES AND DROP VIDEO FOR TITLE TRACK OFF UPCOMING ALBUM

Naarm/Melbourne’s hypnotic dance-punk sextet GUT HEALTH today announce an East Coast album tour this October, and release the video for ‘Stiletto’ - a nearly eight-minute epic that epitomises their chaos-meets-melody ethos, and is both the title track and closing song on their forthcoming debut album due out October 11 (Highly Contagious / AWAL).

‘Stiletto’ is a condemnation of contemporary so-called-Australia, both how it is fabricated and capitalistic, and a call to prioritise Indigenous imagery and voices. It’s a live song at heart, one that is hinged on the band feeding off each other’s energy in an improvisational swirl on stage, and with that came its own challenges in recording. “The recording took a lot of trial and error to feel realised in its recorded form as often these elements are more improvisational in their live form,” Gut Health share, “we just kept layering more and more until the end of the song felt unrecognisable from where it began.” The only constants in its seven-and-a-half-minutes are its snaking bassline and sharp drums, which serve as the tether around which the tension builds, before collapsing into chaos with guitars, synths and saxophone from Yang Chen layered in from every angle. On the song NME said, “it sounds absolutely fucked, like it’s exorcising all the tension and violence it possibly can before tapping out with an exhausted, droning synth.” 

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TOUR DATES

Tue 17 Sept - The Forum - Naarm/Melbourne*

Fri 20 Sept - The Enmore - Gadigal Land/Sydney*

Sat 19 Oct - The Tote - Naarm/Melbourne | Tickets

Fri 25 Oct - The Lansdowne - Gadigal Land/Sydney | Tickets

Sat 26 Oct - Black Bear Lodge - Meanjin/Brisbane | Tickets

* with Hiatus Kaiyote