Den

Den

Post Pink

Digital Regress

For starters, we have a solid foundation for the stomach: cheese puffs made with aged Comté. Den have mastered this opening bite, an amusing and gentle snack. Yes, you’ve heard: Den moved out of the darkness and the chilly cold and have moved inside The Restaurant. They’ve commandeered the kitchen and present a greater depth of flavour and culinary nuance. You might remember them first as a food track in a Marrickville back alley where they served a damaged blend of salty post punk and psychedelic hardcore, salt in the hair and salt on the skin, and then a delivery service of ultra minute, dense bites on their Deep Cell LP. Years of experimenting and balancing flavours have encouraged them to embrace a restraint and subtlety with Post Pink, a truly new sound and direction for the band that honours their culinary legacy. Post Pink infers a certain kind of comfort that you might not anticipate in the wake of their previous output. By this I mean, the ears do not bleed! There is a similar density to the new album, but in place of the sharpened rapier poking deep in your head and puncturing your eardrum, Post Pink has an ethereal quality much like you’d love about Wire’s 154. The weight and solemnity of Deep Cell has lifted, the weightless lyrics will hit you with a brilliant mash of imagery in a way that you love about Brian Eno’s lyricism, some silly moments with words like “happenstance”, copulating jellyfish,...

Den

Den

Rice Is Nice

Enter DEN: A post-punk group formed in 2014 by Michael Grossman, Steven Hicks, Tomas Nunez and Michael Hassett.   Adopting a strict policy of DIY recording at Grossman’s Marrickville studio, they began to churn out new songs on a weekly basis. Within the same year they were playing shows and releasing music independently. Following appearances at Sydney’s Volumes Festival in 2015, Bad Day Out and BIGSOUND the group managed to attract the attention of independent label Rice Is Nice, who are releasing their S/T E.P November 11.   “an immediate jolt of invigorated musicianship that perfectly encapsulates the hollow-yet-vibrant tonality of this generation’s post-punk.” – Weirdo Wasteland   “an invigorating aural assault.” – Edge Radio   “They are a new band from Sydney with a brand of post-punk that lurches more than your belly post-Saturday night, pre-Berocca. Plenty of snarl and plenty of growl.” – Soundly Sounds "Yeah they can sound derivative of bands like Iceage and The Horrors post punk days, with a little of local heroes Low Life thrown in the mix, but the pastiche is so artfully woven it morphs into something impressive." - Noisey

Den

Poltergeist

Rice Is Nice

Say hello to Rice Is Nice’s newest signing, DEN.  DEN are a post-punk band from Sydney: Michael Grossman, Tomas Cole-Nunez, Steven Hicks and Michael Hassett.  “Yeah they can sound derivative of bands like Iceage and The Horrors post punk days, with a little of local heroes Low Life thrown in the mix, but the pastiche is so artfully woven it morphs into something impressive.”– Noisey  DEN will be releasing their debut EP ‘DEN’ on November 11 through Rice Is Nice and ‘Poltergeist’ is the first single.