Two sisters and one unrelated fella from Melbourne combine for some of the sweetest songs around, spiked with toe-tapping tempos, melting melodies and heavenly harmonising. 2ser Subscribers can win a copy of this album all week on Breakfast, Overdrive and Static.
Otouto (pronounced ʻotto-ootoeʼ) is melting pot art/ pop; a band from Melbourne made up of sisters Hazel Brown and Martha Brown, and Kishore Ryan.
Whether playing warm warped vocal notes through a midi keyboard or hitting a banjo with a drumstick, this trio's take on pop music is fantastically unique. The vocal harmonies created by the sisters cause beautiful juxtapositions with the dissonant guitar work and frenetic percussion and beats.
The trio has supported fine Australian talent such as Laura Jean, Kid Sam, The Audreys and Sarah Blasko and international greats Jim White, Casiotone For The Painfully Alone and Micachu & The Shapes.
Astronauts is the exciting single from the forthcoming Otouto album Pip. Based around the uplifting twin vocal attack of Hazel and Martha, it's full of jangley guitars, distorted drums and home made synthesisers. Astronauts follows a sardonic disillusionment with love, but is contrasted by the joyful vocal lines and laconic daydreaming about outer space.
Astronauts is a prime example why this Melbourne art-pop three-piece will be shimmering out of your speakers this year and why Otouto will be your new favourite band.
