Holy Balm It's You

Last year’s LA Vampires club-cruise across Australia
unearthed a multitude of uplifting experiences (Cairns
hippie aerialists, Newcastle hardcore, Melbourne
acid sangria, etc.), but chief among them was the live
actualization of Sydney post-power-trio Holy Balm, who
slyly gene-splice strands of mutant new wave, freeform
house, digital trashcan tribalism and minimalist pop
into something playful, primitive and splatterpaint-party
perfect.
After a few micro-edition split tapes and a single 7-inch,
the band enlisted the help of Jon Hunter at Magnetic Recording
Council Studios to record and mix their debut fulllength,
resulting in the whacked-out hyper-color majesty
of It’s You. Comprised of live classics (“Take It,” “Holy
Balm Theme,” “Town Called Hope”) as well as some
wild, extended studio experiments (“Phone Song,” “One
& Only”), plus a Y Pants cover, the album captures Holy
Balm’s wobbly electronic freak-funk and paradise garage
grooves gloriously. September finds them embarking on
their first ever US tour / voyage so now’s the time to ’Balm
up.