* PREORDER * STATION MODEL VIOLENCE - s/t LP (colour vinyl)

* PREORDER * expected to arrive for Feb 27 release

Limited edition brown colour vinyl. Black wax also avail.

Highly recommended.

"There’s a scene in the BBC Krautrock documentary that made an impression on me. Iggy Pop sits in some beachside location drilling holes in coconuts and ruminating on the sound of Neu. The clash of the visual spectacle and the subject matter infected my dreams. At one point he describes Neu as "pastoral psychedelicism".

I thought of that moment when Buz first played me the demo for the song which would become 'Heat', when first he asked me to play music with him. I heard it, smelled the fresh coconut juice and the sour sweat on Iggy's leathery hide. I knew that we would do it right.

After moving to Sydney I had an overwhelming need to start a new band and sing again. Low Life asked me to play a solo show, so I formed a band called KX Aminal with Greta, Michael and Micky from Den, and Josh from Diat.

KX Aminal are an important part of the SMV story. When we were writing songs for KX Aminal, Josh and Greta and I were playing a guitar line that sounded very much like Crisis, and Josh turned to me and looked me in the eye and mumbled "it smells like Kwisis". Later Buz acknowledged this was something he would always want to hear when writing songs with a band, and on this point it was destined. We would write songs together to smell like Kwisis.

We released a demo for 'Learn To Hate' and formed a lineup for a one off show in late 2024 with Micky (Den), Yuta (Lewers) and Georgia (G2g). Seeing as Micky, Michael, Kuceli and I played in KX Aminal and we never got to record those songs, we decided to absorb some of them into Station Model Violence.

We combined some of those KX songs with the demos and wrote a couple of new songs together and played a couple of shows, and then recorded an LP with Mikey in Melb and Micky in Sydney at the start of 2025.

Revisit that image of the coconuts and the drill and pastoral psychedelicism and the smell of KWISIS." - DX