Project Description
Photo – Amanda Stevens
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INFINITY BROKE
‘ABJECT OBJECT’
Single Review
(26th February 2025)
Review by Melanie Griffiths
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Photo – Cody Moore
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Press for INFINITY BROKE’s previous releases:
“Like Thurston Moore covering Neil Young’s Like a Hurricane in Dusseldorf” – The Music
“Infinity Broke are a band that does not go gently into the night: their new album ‘Your Dream My Jail ’is an excoriating, driven, thunderous slice of post-punk cake that is angular, studded and visceral” – Arun Kendall, Backseat Mafia
“Your Dream My Jail” is barbed-wire wrapped Post-Punk that takes it back to its howling beginnings.” – Tbones Records and Cafe (U.S)
“Their swingin’ and stompin’ blues-hued rock is matched by the passion play in Hutchings’ poetic lyrics, some angular art-damage and some sweet gospel touches. It’s an excellent follow-up to the debut River Mirrors, riffing on similar energy but even more streamlined, working open-faced and in the raw.” – 2Ser Real Radio 107.3
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Psych-rock fans rejoice, from atop the mountain of comes Infinity Broke’s “Abject Object”! Their latest single is a slow-building storm—brooding, jagged, and completely unapologetic. It’s the kind of track that slinks into your consciousness, pulsing with an undercurrent of tension that refuses to let up. With a perpetual post-punk swagger and a twisted genre-melding edge, it feels like The Brian Jonestown Massacre went on a bender with a Slowdive and decided to make something darker and weirder.
“Abject Object” rides a relentless groove, anchored by a bassline that thrums like a dull heartbeat. The dual percussion creates a primal, almost ritualistic beat that keeps the whole thing teetering between chaos and control. Guitars grind and glint in equal measure, sometimes sharp and cutting, sometimes dissolving into a wash of drenched reverb but always with intent.
Singer Jamie Hutchings’ vocals feel like they’ve been dredged up from the depths. With his distorted voice coming off hypnotic, detached, and occasionally on the brink of a wail. The lyrics tumbling across the guitar riffs are less about telling a story and more about setting a mood of jarring disconnection suggestive of the song’s origins from a place of sterility. You can practically feel the cold press of anguish that pulses through the track, tying all the frazzled ends together in a cacophony that feels like an emotional watershed.
The production is raw in all the right ways. There’s a roughness around the edges that gives the track its teeth, but it’s layered carefully enough that every thud of the drum, sonic flourish and jagged guitar scrape lands exactly where it should. It has that off-the-cuff energy that feels unpredictable like the band is barely keeping it together and that’s where the magic happens.
“Abject Object” is unsettling but hypnotic. It’s the kind of track that creeps under your skin and stays there. Infinity Broke have always thrived in that murky, experimental space and here, they push it even further, creating something that feels both raw and meticulously crafted.
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Photo – Amanda Stevens
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BIO
Formed in 2013 by founding Bluebottle Kiss member Jamie Hutchings, Infinity Broke are a quartet that have been described by Rolling Stone Australia as “A powerful exercise in dissonance, rhythm, and melody”. The band ’s two headed percussive approach (Scott Hutchings on drums/guitar and Tyrone Stevens on aux drums/percussion) alongside Jamie on guitar/vocals and Reuben Wills on bass has seen them hypnotise audiences all over the east coast of Australia as well as throughout France where the band has toured twice. The group will release its fourth album ‘This Masthead’ in April 2025.
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Photo – Amanda Stevens
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Press Release 19th February 2024 (below) HERE
INFINITY BROKE
announces release of
first single
‘ABJECT OBJECT’
from forthcoming album
THIS MASTHEAD
Pre-order HERE
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