Following a premiere with Weirdo Wasteland, Brisbane/Meanjin-based guitar-drums duo Marville today release new single Thinking Sense with lo-fi visuals by songwriter/guitarist Ash Kerley (of Girls Rock!).
Marville also announce their impending second LP Terra Alpha, out via Regressive on March 30 with an East Coast launch tour to follow.

Written “in a shitty share house”, Kerley’s yawning, powerful vocals parse caustic jabs on Thinking Sense that are just as often aimed at herself. Propelled by relentlessly dirty, crunchy guitar and Doug Palmer’s furious drumming, Thinking Sense has already made fans at community radio (RRR, PBSFM, 4ZZZ & more) and explores the landscape of how humans relate to each other when dignity is removed from the equation, with self-respect quickly following.

Marville’s intensely human bare-bones approach has earned them myriad praise across their local scene, with multiple placings in the 4ZZZ Hot 100 and Sonic Masala calling first LP Vayan Con Dios “an album of unabashed tension, atmosphere and slack-jawed nihilism”. Crowned winners of the 2017 Billy Thorpe Scholarship at the Queensland Music Awards last March, Marville’s second LP Terra Alpha is a journey through the hot, crushing tension that comes before the quintessential melodramatic Queensland storm.

Produced by Joe Hammond (Courtney Barnett, Jen Cloher, Fraser A. Gorman) at his Pots and Pans studio, Terra Alpha’s release will be followed by an East Coast launch tour, with a regional tour across Queensland to be announced. Marville’s singularly enthralling, high-decibel live show – previously on display at the Brisbane leg of Gizzfest 2017 and as support for peers Cable Ties and Wet Lips – must be experienced to be fully understood.