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HELLO SATELLITES ‘84000’ – New Album/Single Apr 11 + New Live Dates

Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control are proud to release 84000, the sophomore album from Melbourne-based band Hello Satellites. Beginning as a solo project in her suburban shed before taking form as a studio collaboration with producer Nick Huggins and Joe Hammond, Hello Satellites create both subtle and exciting music.

Hello Satellites Press shot Print by Lucy Spartalis 64-1Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control are proud to release 84000, the sophomore album from Melbourne-based band Hello Satellites. Beginning as a solo project in her suburban shed before taking form as a studio collaboration with producer Nick Huggins and Joe Hammond, Hello Satellites create both subtle and exciting music.

Their first self-titled album was an 11-song opus of delicate folk-pop that was lauded by the likes of Clare Bowditch as well as radio stations nationally, and it saw the band tour extensively around Australia.  Hello Satellites’ sound has evolved, following some line-up additions, building on the subtle beauties of their debut to create 84000, a stunning and thoughtful sophomore album of unique folk music with pop sensibilities and layered instrumentation. It’s at times euphoric, melancholic and like the best pop songs, invites you in, taking you with them on a musical journey through joy and pain, sorrow and dreams.

The songs on 84000 began in the back, windowless room of songwriter Eva Popov’s home. Some were yelled into a microphone late at night, others a long and intricate puzzle of layered vocals. They all began from sounds that were collaged, recorded and layered, including trombone, clarinet, strings, trumpets, saxophones, pianos, keyboards, bodies stomping and jumping. The album was recorded across six different studios with the diverse recording and mixing talents of Nick Huggins, J. Walker (Machine Translations) and Joe Hammond with generous assistance from Arts Victoria.

Following recent gigs with Machine Translations and Sweet Jean, Hello Satellites will be playing full band shows in late April/May to celebrate the launch of 84000 in Melbourne at the Kelvin Club on April 26 with Paddy Mann (Grand Salvo) and in Sydney at The Newsagency on May 31.

Featuring singles ‘Television Screens’ and ‘Hollering Saints’, 84000 is released on CD/Digital on April 11, 2014 through Two Bright Lakes/Remote Control and distributed nationally by Inertia.

“Bridging a divide between delicate organic tones and washes of electronica, ‘Television Screens’ is an airy trip through kitchen cupboard percussion and dainty string arpeggios guided by a snappy beat.”
– Beat Magazine

“Eva Popov has managed to write one of the most heart-shatteringly glorious albums I’ve heard in a very very long time. I cannot stop listening.” – Clare Bowditch

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