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Chores. Fuzzy pop band from Melbourne. Debut single “Yeah Nah” out now, and the EP of the same name will be out soon. Still reading? Cool. Grab a bevvo and settle in. Story is: Tristan is from Adelaide, he used to be in the bands “Vice Pirate” and “Roach Coach”, and he started writing songs on an acoustic guitar whilst living on Vancouver Island, brewing beer. On moving back to Australia in early 2014, Tristan elected to put a band together to play these songs, and recruited former Brisbanite Nick Smethurst (Epithets, Little Scout, Bigstrongbrute, Mr Maps) on bass and recent Chicago ex-pat Paul Brannon (Mucca Pazza, -Ssion) on drumbos. The three began using regular "Band Practices" as a solid excuse to eat Brunswick St takeaway food and to occasionally write fuzzy songs in the realm of Sebadoh, Archers of Loaf and Seam. They’ve played with Mere Women (syd), Seahorse Divorce (bris), Dr Piffle and The Burlap Band (adel), Stockades, Winter Nationale, and they’ve been booked for the

Chores are an award-winning dance-pop duo whose dance-floor fillers have established them as one of the most exciting electronic acts south of the equator. Often compared to Hayden James, Peking Duck, and Pnau, the New Zealand-born music-makers won ‘Breakthrough Artist’ at the 2017 Annual George FM awards, was nominated the following year for the International achievement award, and then took home ‘Best Electronic Act’ at the 2018 Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards. Since their big VNZMA win, Chores, AKA Sam Saunders and Thommy Simmons, have been based in Melbourne, Australia, where they’ve been toiling away in the studio on new music. Now after a productive few months in lockdown, they are about to reveal a string of new tunes, with a host of exciting international features. The new music follows winning singles such as Away, Surrender, Got It, By Your Side, which has received love from New Zealand radio and clocked up hundreds of thousands of streams across multiple platforms. In