Few groups in history, recent or otherwise, elevate mood to such singular, smouldering supremacy as the Australian duo.

HTRK ('Hate Rock') is 21.

“21 years of thinking deeply about pop, art and relationships, not fitting in, being popular, not having any ideas, losing a best friend, accepting being bad at life, talking more than making music”

Few groups in history elevate mood to such singular, smouldering supremacy as the Australian duo of Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang aka HTRK. Across decades of work and wounds, their sound has shape-shifted between densities and intensities, noise and nakedness,but never wavered in its delicate poetic gravity. HTRK’s albums have been released by an array of international labels including Fire (Nostalgia), Blast First Petite (Marry Me Tonight), Boomkat Editions (Over the Rainbow), and Ghostly International (Work (work, work), Psychic 9-5 Club, Venus In Leo). For the occasion of their most recent full-length, the celebrated slowburn suite Rhinestones, they founded their own artist imprint, N&J Blueberries. In the live setting they transform spectral torch songs into quiet storms of tension,texture, and transcendence.

HTRK will mark their 21st Anniversary in 2024 through a series of collaborations, installations and performances. We're pleased to welcome them for this intimate show here at OTO as part of that.