Filth by Collarbones

Filth is the final chapter in the long and storied collaboration we started in 2007 with a song called Malone that we made over MSN Messenger, before we'd even met in person.

Half our life later, many things are different but in some ways these methods and locations - remoteness, friendship across borders, the internet as a kind of portal - remain true for us on this album as ever.

Named after a long lost 1995 compilation from Travis' childhood collection, Filth reimagines sounds from the cosmology of 90s alternative culture, the music that first captured our imagination as kids.

This album wishes to echo the feeling of awe that these sounds awoke in us, that angst-rich pre-millennium feeling of vacant ecstasy and suburban trouble that swept through 90s youth from the normies to the freaks.

Of course, these sounds - from nu metal to shoegaze to post rock to rave music - come back haunted, mutant and hybridised, because nothing is ever the same again.

We look back in a joy that mixes well with horror - these are songs about staring into an abyss gladly and we relish in sounds that are as lurid as they are dreamlike.

Collarbones advocates for bad taste, now and forever.

Sydney's Marcus Whale and Adelaide's Travis Cook

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