HTRK on work, wounds and world tours

Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smoldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK [‘Hate Rock’].

Across nearly two decades of work, wounds and world tours, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness, but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity.

In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension, texture, and transcendence.

Matt Perrett caught the duo on the tail end of shows on the east coast and picked their brains about new music, past appearances and what touring is like for them after over two decades….

HTRK play Fremantle Arts Centre’s Inner Courtyard Thursday December 12.