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Brought together by their adulation for ‘Silent Alarm’, then schoolmates James Cooney and Jono Graham formed Made in Japan to build on what was an exciting niche subgenre. Tom Davis and Andrew Knox were soon drawn into the project to bring life to some promising early demos. Determined to create captivating groove based indie music, Made in Japan find themselves in a lonely space somewhere between dream pop, post-rock and the pastel Sydney skyline. Since releasing their debut album Sights and Sounds in 2012, Made in Japan have been nominated for the Australian Music Prize and galvanized audiences with their unique colonial sound at Europe’s leading festival for new music, The Great Escape. Their forthcoming sophomore album ‘Tame All Those Thoughts’ promises to be a showcase of their compositional prowess. With their sober attention to detail and harmony, Made in Japan create an experience that is unmistakably more than the sum of its parts.