It started in a bedroom in Brisbane ...

Shoegaze | Dreampop | Triphop | Vocoders | Melancholy | Ethereal | Hypnotic | Noise.

It started in a bedroom in Brisbane when a muso with too many pedals, too much time and a penchant for home recording set about doing something with the ideas he’d stockpiled over the years. Taking the dissonant effected guitar of shoegaze as a starting point, vocoders, loops, noise and found sounds were added to create a wall of sound best described as music on the hallucinogenic side of pop. Eventually relocating to Melbourne a 7” single Head in The Ether / Scarlet Sometimes surfaced in 2010, followed by their debut album Cochlear Kill later the following year. Migrated from the bedroom to stage with a live lineup playing around Melbourne 2013-14, but then faded into hiatus just as Shoegaze was coming into vogue. After an 8 year absence Cochlear Kill returned in 2023 with the single Ruminescent. This began a run of releases including the single Exits and the EP Songs in the Key of S. All mixed by Ben Etter. (Maximo Park, Deerhunter, Cut Copy)

Cochlear Kill at a Irene's warehouse show in 2014.