FRIENDSHIPS Announce new album FISHTANK Releases new single & video ‘happyness’

They came back together by chance at a mutual friend’s house. Suddenly they were talking again, telling each other about what they’d been working on for the past eight months. Where in the past they might’ve created for each other, to complement the other’s work, their time in isolation had them seeking catharsis only for themselves. And yet when Grace showed Brown a video she’d composed, he put a track he’d written underneath it. They complemented each other perfectly.

Given their individual interrogations of self, the concept for FISHTANK came together naturally. Charting the descent into what it’s like to lose one’s self, each track invokes a different aspect drawing the listener through a journey of loss, confusion, and doubt. The actual process both mirrored and contradicted that theme: although Grace and Brown were working through it together again, they were more cut off from the broader community than ever. Nullarbor was conceived over years of performing, intertwining themselves with local and international influences and scenes. But during FISHTANK’s making, from the outside, they were virtually invisible. Rarely performing, FISHTANK developed over countless late nights talking, playing with each other’s ideas and pushing each other into new territory. Where Nullarbor was a coming together of their respective halves of the audio-visual dichotomy, now they were feeding into each other.

With structural and thematic elements that loop back and in on each other, sounds and visuals that play off and with each other, FISHTANK is an ambitious project. It asks as much from the audience as it has to give, a bold step for the newly reaffirmed friendships.