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Registered Mourner is an art-rock group founded and grounded in Melbourne, Australia. Led by songwriter and real-life psychotherapist, Tony Talevski, the group seeks to prod the dormant forces that lie beneath—and give rise to—our personal, social and political veneers. With off-kilter harmonic play and a deft cohesion of moving parts, listeners will be artfully nudged off balance; de-centred, cradled in suspense, and carefully re-centred, experiencing emotional pay-offs previously unimagined. The band’s debut 6-track EP, Numb Spectator, is difficult to neatly pigeon hole, evoking complex feelings that seek an elusive resolution. Drawing upon sonic influences Midlake, Elliott Smith, and Radiohead, and lyrical concepts echoing Freud’s Mourning and Melancholia, the music invites the listener to a deeper way of relating that requires engagement, reflection and re-engagement. It may take many listens before the emotional penny drops… if at all. Numb Spectator is out now across all