Six years after relocating from New York City, indie four-piece Clairaudience is ready to relaunch. Based in Melbourne, the core members, Danny and Caroline Jumpertz, recruited Danny’s brother Mick Jumpertz (bass) and Danny’s long-time musical partner-in-crime, Chris Smales (guitar) into the lineup, which began rehearsals in a dank North Melbourne basement in the gaps between the 2020-21 lockdowns.

Clairaudience’s 2016 self-titled album yielded the Spotify hit ‘Being Bad’. This full-length release followed on from their mini-album Sun Damage (2015), described by Atwood Magazine as “a psychedelic dream full of jangling guitars and a Phil Spector-like Wall of Sound”. Both were recorded with Abe Seiferth (Yeasayer, Eleanor Friedberger) between 2014 and 2016 at Transmitter Park Studios in Brooklyn. Caroline and Danny had emigrated to New York City in 2010 after gaining US residency via the Green Card lottery. But let’s backtrack a little…

Clairaudience formed in Sydney’s inner-west in 2006 as an improv–focused four piece and the house band at Danny and Caroline’s Feral Media record label and studio headquarters. A track from their 2007 debut, POWWOW 3, was described by critic Anwyn Crawford as “Joy Division on AutoSummarise: ominous, whiplash drums and dirty guitar form an instrumental loop so audacious in its imitation that it’s kind of great.”

Since returning to Australia in 2017, Clairaudience and Feral Media have been busy re-establishing in Carlton North and honing a new live set which is a blend of raw new wave and melodic post punk. The current line-up has blown away any Covid-induced cobwebs and is now ready to start performing live.

Doors 9pm | Performance 9.30pm
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