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The Cultures formed by chance when the quartet, coming from entirely different music scenes and countries, met in Singapore. Working together at the same company, their 9-5 shifts only tightened the band when they jammed and wrote each night. Never falling out of sync and always bouncing ideas around the office, the band quickly wrote enough music to fill a set. This dynamic was changed dramatically when a chunk of the band returned home to Australia, but it didn't spell the end of The Cultures by any means. Now, with touring both Asia and Australia on the cards, the band hunkered down to record and release their debut single, "Are We Dead?". Written by the band and entirely self-recorded, mixed and mastered by lead singer Ashwin Rao, "Are We Dead?" bemoans the traditional tropes of falling out of love, successfully avoiding becoming another clichéd love song in the annals of songwriting history. Huge guitar tones reminiscent of the '90s roll over in thunderous waves, rounding out