IV LEAGUE
ink new booking deal
announce hometown headline show
and summer festival slots
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PRAISE FOR ‘LOSE ME’
“… gets under your skin quick smart.”
– Nick Findlay, triple j (Music Director)
“IV League are making some of the most exciting indie-pop in the country at the moment.”
– Purple Sneakers
“Oh how I love IV League. this one changes it up just a touch, charging their batteries on emotion and vulnerability instead of hi energy sunny fuzz.”
– Declan Byrne, triple j
“Just stunning. I can never fault Bella, her voice is an Australian treasure.”
– Nat Tenic, triple j
“… their best work so far.”
– Sounds of Oz
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PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR IV LEAGUE
“…this track really is a defining moment for the band”
– Purple Sneakers
“Like their last couple of singles––the wonderful “Sylvia” and “Change Your Mind”––“Superstar” builds layers of 90s fuzz around a bulletproof hook.”
– Noisey
“IV League are brewin’ suchhhhhh a good blend of indie-pop. There’s angst, there’s punch but there’s also this sweetness that makes ya just wanna bop!”
– Bridget Hustwaite, triple j
“Full of confidence…this is insanely good. My new favourite IV League track!”
– Claire Mooney, triple j
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As a typically busy year winds down, Melbourne indie-darlings IV League are preparing for a massive 2019 by today announcing not only a Melbourne headline show and a pair of Summer festival appearances, but also a new bookings deal with Rob Giovannoni of Select Music.
The news follows a huge 2018 for the band and they’ll kick off a new year with festival appearances at Brisbane tastemaker event The Mountain Goat Valley Crawl and The Hills Are Alive in Victoria, as well as their own hometown headline show at the Grace Darling Friday February 22nd.
This is, of course, on the back of a pair of well-received singles released in 2018. Both the blazing ‘Superstar’ (released in March) and the recently-released slow burn ‘Lose Me’ were met with immense praise online, were immediately added to triple j’s rotation playlist and whet the whistles of old and new fans alike for what’s to come on their debut EP.
IV League are, quite simply, the ideal indie band. They kneel at the alter of 90’s heroes like The Breeders and Pixies, while simultaneously inhaling fearless inspiration from international contemporaries such as Wolf Alice, Parquet Courts, Shame and Alvvays. They remain forward-thinking and original in their execution as an Australian guitar band not making typical “Aussie rock”. Their not-so-secret weapon, however, is the unique vocal stylings and vision of singer, guitarist and writer Bella Venutti.
Dazzling all who witnessed their shows in 2018, IV League played theatre shows in support of City Calm Down, sold out a trio of east coast headline shows and shifted themselves firmly into the position of the ones to watch when taking to the outside stage at BIGSOUND 2018 before a carpark full of delegates.
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IV LEAGUE
ON TOUR 2019
(tickets available from http://ivleagueband.com)
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SATURDAY FEB 16 | MOUNTAIN GOAT VALLEY CRAWL, BRISBANE
FRIDAY FEB 22 | THE GRACE DARLING HOTEL, MELBOURNE
SATURDAY MARCH 29 | THE HILLS ARE ALIVE, VIC
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Single
IV LEAGUE
‘LOSE ME’
Out now
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A sonic shift in gears for the Melbourne duo, ‘Lose Me’ is a pensive cut from their forthcoming debut EP, set for release next year. Following upbeat triple j favourite, ‘Superstar’, their latest single is a stark polarisation that is “a self-reflection of sorts, assessing my feelings at a pretty dark and confusing time in my life in which I was feeling really scared and anxious about the transition from adolescence into early adulthood”, IV League’s Bella Venutti (vox, guitar) explains.
The track traces the experience of lacking direction and control and sees Bella Venuti’s autobiographical storytelling unobscured and at the forefront, stronger than ever. In Bella’s own words, the track is “a plea both to my self and those around me to not give up and stick it out as I worked to break though this mental block and feel stronger. This song also deals with the mental warfare we put ourselves through as musicians and artist, and moments when you stop to wonder what drew you to create initially, a desire for validation or the desire to express yourself?”
Like previous single, ‘Superstar’, ‘Lose Me’ sees the band employ the assistance of producer Malcolm Besley (City Calm Down, The Creases, Northeast Party House, Client Liaison) who has bolstered the duo’s burgeoning sonic identity.
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IV League’s
new single
‘Lose Me’
is OUT NOW.
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