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Photo Credit: Giulia McGauran

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Today, Melbourne queer creatives Cry Club release their highly-awaited second album Spite Will Save Me, alongside focus single ‘Get Up!!!’, and the announcement of their upcoming Australian headline tour.

Three years in the making, Spite Will Save Me was written over the course of Melbourne’s lockdowns. Instead of lamenting the state of the world, Heather Riley (they/them) and Jono Tooke (he/him) decided to bring as much fun and creative freedom to their at-home songwriting sessions, to compensate for how much they missed performing live.

Listen to SPITE WILL SAVE ME here

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“Being able to expand what a Cry Club song could be was a really refreshing experience, landing in a time we probably needed it most personally,” says Jono, and working with producer Alex Laksa (Kingswood), the duo were able to unleash their most aspirational ideas: “You wanted to be in a massive 80s glam band? Let’s do it! Wanna be the scary, confident, strong queer you’ve always dreamt of being? NOW YOU ARE!” 

The resulting 10-track album, though heavier than their debut album God I’m Such A Mess released in 2020, is “still true to who we are as a band, but more self-assured and unapologetically feral,” says Heather. Speaking on the band’s evolution during this process, they continue: “If our first album is about queer pride, this one is absolutely queer wrath. Most importantly we love it, and that’s the biggest takeaway for us.”

Jono adds: “Bands who develop their sound and explore with confidence are the ones who end up mattering the most in the long run. When you look at really canonised artists and bands you can see eras play out, different albums for different people, and a willingness to either be someone’s favourite or least favourite act. That middle spot of being the boring band is truly the nightmare place to be, so I love that this record has a real strong chance at polarising people. I think the only carrying over element from the first record is the attitude that being boring is the number 1 cardinal sin.”

Spite Will Save Me arrives alongside focus single ‘Get Up!!!’, track one of the album, which perfectly encapsulates the ethos of the album: tackling the big issues (in this case, toxic masculinity) with some punchy guitars and tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

The album also features the heavy-hitting ‘People Like Me’, glam-rock anthem ‘Somehow (You Still Get To Me)’, and most recent releases ‘I Want More’, ‘Hocus Pocus’ and ‘Cry About It’ – with these singles having received huge support from the likes of triple j, Rolling Stone AU/NZ, NME Australia, Guardian Australia, MTV, rage and more.

Tonight, Friday June 23, Cry Club will be celebrating the release of Spite Will Save Me with a special in-store performance and signing at Melbourne’s SoundMerch. Kicking off this August, Cry Club will then embark on an Australian headline tour supported by Melbourne artist Eaglemont – tickets on sale now.

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Spite Will Save Me 
Tracklist

Get Up!!!
A Bit Of Hell
Somehow (You Still Get To Me)
Bad Taste
Hocus Pocus
Mirrored
People Like Me
Cry About It
Wildfire
I Want More

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AMNPLIFY – ML