Bloodline by DROVES

“DROVES combine a dystopic sound that feels both old and new at the same time” - Pilerats

“If you shoved Foals through an 80’s new wave shredder and pasted it back together on the streets of Wollongong” - Declan Byrne, Triple J

DROVES are a band from Wollongong NSW composed of Phillip Spiteri, Taylor McAuliffe, Luise Martin, Jonathan McKenzie and Tiernan Browne. DROVES’s futuristic look at New Wave Punk has drawn comparisons to early New Order, The Eurythmics and The Cure.

With their debut EP Bloodline, DROVES peer beyond the veil and into our not-so-distant futures. With grace, ‘Bloodline’ reflects on the effects of modern cryogenics and navigates what it means to mourn a death, which due to modern technology, is not set in stone.

Eight years ago, Phillip Spiteri’s father passed away, but prior to his life’s end, he invested in having his brain cryogenically frozen. “In the last six months of his life he had managed to alienate most of his direct family and his recent ex-wife” explains Phillip. “Eventually he ended up in palliative care with a disdain for God and an eagerness to start over again through the help of a little known start-up company involved in commercialised cryogenics.”

This EP functions as time capsule; it unpacks the anger Phillip held within for first few years after his father’s death and progresses towards forgiveness as self-care. “This [EP] was a way I could communicate, as a sort of time capsule, to my father while telling a story of resentment, time and peace to anyone who may have found themselves holding onto anger,

DROVES are a band from Wollongong NSW composed of Phillip Spiteri, Taylor McAuliffe, Kyneisha Murray, Jonathan McKenzie and Tiernan Browne.

DROVES’s futuristic look at New Wave Punk has drawn comparisons to early New Order, The Eurythmics and The Cure.

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