Mosquito Coast

our darling debut album 𝓚𝓲𝓼𝓼𝓮𝓼 is out now via Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon and Google Play✨We are so glad to be finally sharing it with you 💖

http://orcd.co/mosquitocoast

So many thanks to Nicolas Vernhes for producing it and pushing us to experiment, Dave and The Orchard for distributing it, Rachel Davison for her endless guidance and support, Hiball Productions for creating our visual world, and Mitch Mack, Oscar van Gass and Mark McEwen for always looking out for us and being the best your family we could ever ask for! And finally, to all the people we kissed that inspired this album! ✨💋✨

• love Naomi & Conor Xx

We are lucky enough to have Pilerats premiere our debut album, Kisses, two days before its official release on Friday. Jump on over, we'd love to hear what you think!

http://pilerats.com/music/bands/premiere-mosquito-coast-kisses/

We are so excited to announce the release of our debut album, Kisses. Due on October 18, the album is an intimate collection of portraits of the people we love and have loved. It describes kisses on the cheek, a lovers' kiss, and a goodbye kiss among others. The album was recorded in New York City with Nicolas Vernhes at his Rare Book Room Studio - one of the last before the iconic space was sold. Vernhes, who has worked with the likes of Animal Collective, Wild Nothings and The War On Drugs, helped push the band to confident new places, inspiring a new level of synthiness and vocal harmonies on the album. We can't wait for you to hear it, keep up a look out on our socials for more news and sneak peaks soon!

Naomi & Conor xxxx

We've released a video for our new single Sweet Talking!

It was created by the amazing team at Hiball Productions and is inspired by cult 80's film clips - think raised platforms, soft focus, emphasised colours, neon lights and artificial dessert trickery - you are literally being “sweet-talked” to!

Our new single 'Sweet Talking' is out today!

The song is all about the excitement of a new relationship expressed via synths, harmonies and a relentless momentum.

The original guitar licks were really dirty and playful, trying to have an Unknown Mortal Orchestra vibe. When we pushed the tempo it really started to pump. To stop it from being a conventional garage track we decided to change up the vocals and try speaking it instead. We were trying to channel David Byrne in ‘Once in A Lifetime’ and Kim Gordon in ‘The Sprawl’. Lyrically, this is our most racy track, with an empowered voice and confident sexuality.

We recorded it in New York City and it's taken from our forthcoming debut album, created with French producer Nicolas Vernhes who has worked with some of our favourite artists including Moodoid, War on Drugs, Animal Collective and Deerhunter.

LISTEN HERE

We're heading out on a national tour this February & March taking in capital cities and visiting the Gold Coast and Newcastle for the first time, as well as opening for Beach House at Perth Festival!

The tour is in support of our new single ‘Sweet Talking’ to be released on 18 January – it's the second single off our forthcoming LP, which was recorded in NYC last year with French producer Nicolas Vernhes (Animal Collective, Deerhunter, The War on Drugs, Moodoïd and Dirty Projectors).

We'll be releasing the album a bit later in the year and in the meantime, see you at our one of our shows!

https://www.mosquitocoast.com.au/shows

Love Naomi & Conor x

Pilerats filmed us playing a song from our new album in Conor’s grandparents holiday house. The song is called This Type of Love and was conceived in the house last year on a writing trip, so it’s nice that it’s gone full circle back to where it all began! Xx

VIDEO & PHOTO ALBUM: http://pilerats.com/pile-tv/live-sessions/mosquito-coast-this-type-of-love/

We still can't believe it... We're supporting Beach House at Perth Festival next year! It's going to be a very special night 💖

Thursday, 28 February 2019 from 20:00
Chevron Gardens, Elizabeth Quay, enter via The Esplanade

Beach House return to Australia, playing at Chevron Gardens on 28 February 2019 as part of Perth Festival.
"The finest, boldest and most singular dream pop act since the Cocteau Twins” ' — Spectrum Culture
At once intimate and cosmic, Beach House bring their adored songbook to kaleidoscopic life.
Exploring the beauty that arises from darkness, the Baltimore dream-pop duo will delve into the twisted double edge of glamour with an overwhelming cinematic live show.
Supported by Mosquito Coast

For our new single Skipping Girl, we teamed up with Melbourne’s new queens of experimental film, HIBALL for a music video.

We loved that they wanted to contrast the sweet harmonies, lush synths and swirling guitar with some eerie undertones and a highly-stylized aesthetic, which we think brings the song to life in a whole new light!

The video draws on the surreal work of American photographer, Gregory Crewdson and the emotive films of Celia Rowlson-Hall, exploring the song’s core subjects in a series of surreal contrasting moments that touch on the complexities of home, family, love, tension, and memory.


VIDEO CREDITS

Directed by Hiball
Director of Photography Jesse Gohier-Fleet
1st AC Nathan Guy
Gaffer Robert Shedden
Assistant Gaffer / 2nd AC Ace Meredith
Production Design Maia Pookie
HMUA Zoe Jane Crawford
Colourist Abe Wynen

Hi WA!

Our debut album isn't coming out until 2019, but you can preview the new songs and live set-up in a run of shows between 6-8 December in WA.

Tickets on sale now with awesome supports to be announced soon! We hope you can make it along.

THU 06 DEC - SETTLERS TAVERN, MARGARET RIVER, WA | 18+ | Tickets
FRI 07 DEC - INDIAN OCEAN HOTEL, SCARBOROUGH, WA | 18+ | Tickets
SAT 08 DEC – HYPERFEST, MIDLAND OVAL, WA | All-Ages | Tickets
SAT 08 DEC - JACK RABBIT SLIMS, NORTHBRIDGE, WA | 18+ | Tickets

Love Naomi & Conor x

PREMIERE: Mosquito Coast Share Beautifully Eerie Experimental Video For ‘Skipping Girl’

Head over to Music Feeds to watch it!

http://musicfeeds.com.au/features/premiere-mosquito-coast-beautifully-eerie-experimental-video-skipping-girl/

We've also announced a Skipping Girl WA Tour, which goes on sale at 10am WST today!

THU 06 DEC - SETTLERS TAVERN, MARGARET RIVER, WA | Tickets
FRI 07 DEC - INDIAN OCEAN HOTEL, SCARBOROUGH, WA | Tickets
SAT 08 DEC – HYPERFEST, MIDLAND OVAL, WA | Tickets
SAT 08 DEC - JACK RABBIT SLIMS, NORTHBRIDGE, WA | Tickets

Love Naomi & Conor x

We did a little interview for Pelican magazine. Have a read.... you'll need to zoom in 💜