Bleak Squad

Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty.

Featuring Mick Turner (_Dirty Three, Mess Esque_), Mick Harvey (_Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party_), Adalita (_Magic Dirt_), and Marty Brown (_Art of Fighting, Clare Bowditch_), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad's brooding, noir-rock debut LP, _Strange Love,_ which has been shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize.

Born from spur-of-the-moment jam sessions, _Strange Love_ sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey.

The result is a confident nine-song set of love, loss, and lonesomeness filled with fizzing guitars, slippery basslines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner’s guitar. With _Strange Love_, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape.

> “They should not be missed live: four Australian music greats with charisma to burn, uncanny chemistry, and a quality set of songs tailor-made for those long, dark nights of the soul.”  
> — _Andrew Stafford, The Guardian_

Bleak Squad

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Bleak Squad Live @ The Imperial Hotel Eumundi

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