Bleak Squad

Bleak Squad is a new Melbourne four-piece comprised of true Australian art-rock royalty. Featuring Mick Turner (Dirty Three, Mess Esque) Mick Harvey (Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, The Birthday Party), Adalita (Magic Dirt) and Marty Brown (Art of Fighting), the unlikely quartet unite for the first time on Bleak Squad's brooding, noir-rock debut LP, Strange Love, since shortlisted for the Australian Music Prize. Borne from spur of the moment jam sessions, Strange Love sees all four members juggle multiple instruments, songwriting, their own idiosyncrasies, and lead vocal duties between Adalita and Harvey. The result is a confident nine-song set of love, loss and lonesome-ness, set to fizzing guitars, slippery bass lines, and the signature illogical squawk of Turner's guitar. With Strange Love, Bleak Squad announce the boldest of entries into the Australian music landscape. Jess Ribeiro is a shape-shifting musical enigma. Ribeiro's 2012 debut album My Little River was an award-winning folk-country masterpiece while her second album (2015's Kill It Yourself produced by Mick Harvey) was a slow-burning indie-noire masterpiece which left reviewers scrambling for superlatives. Jess has toured with Angel Olsen, Kurt Vile, Courtney Barnett and Aldous Harding. She has performed as a backup singer for Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds Push The Sky Away Tour and contributed to records with artists such as Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnetts record Lotta Sea Lice.