A New Zealand duo whose bright synth-pop found a global audience, then kept evolving.
For the early rush, "Young Blood" still holds up. If you want to hear where they landed later, try "A Stillness" or "What We Want."
They broke through with "Young Blood," a single that layered vocals and synths into something that traveled well beyond Auckland. That song became their calling card, but later albums like "In Rolling Waves" and "Simple Forms" showed them stretching into moodier, more personal territory. By the time they released "Recover" in 2020, they were circling back to the spacious melodies that first defined them.
Thom Powers and Aaron Short started the band in 2008, putting out their debut EP "This Machine" on their own after labels passed. "Young Blood" changed everything in 2010, leading to the album "Passive Me, Aggressive You." The lineup shifted over the years, with Short leaving in 2012, but Powers and vocalist Alisa Xayalith have steered the sound through each phase.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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