Hopium are a mysterious Melbourne duo that create some very impressive emotive electronica. They first caught our attention with their brooding debut single 'Cut' and have done it again with their new track 'Dreamers', which features guest vocals by Phoebe Lou of Unearthed High alumni Snakadaktal.
Tell us about your music. How did you develop your sound?
Trial and error! We’d only really made band music in the past, so it was very reactionary and intentionally experimental.
What’s your greatest source of inspiration for making music?
We’re both pretty analytical people and while music definitely flexes that, it’s also chasing that thing where you’re fully in the moment, engaged emotionally, creatively, whatever.
What’s your vision for a Hopium live show?
Epic. Visually it will be an extension of the aesthetic we’re building in the videos, a surreal fantasy, super experiential.
What’s the best advice you’ve been given and who was it from?
“Get rich or die trying” - 50 Cent
What Australian track would you play to cheer up someone who was crying?
The Go-Betweens - 'Streets Of Your Town'
What Australian track would you play to someone to make them cry?
Flight Facilities - 'Clair De Lune'
You’re the DJ at a party. The dance floor is pumping. What Australian track do you put on next?
You can’t beat Flume’s Hermitude remix.
What was the last local gig you went to? How was it?
Sticky Fingers. Debaucherous.
Tell us about the bands or people in the Melbourne music community that inspire you.
It’s actually impossible to choose, it’s the city as whole that we find inspiring and everyone in it.
What are your plans for Hopium in 2014?
Make large quantities of dope music and play it live.
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This is a monumentally large chorus. I can imagine a festival crowd singing along to this very easily indeed.
This is a monumentally large chorus. I can imagine a festival crowd singing along to this very easily indeed.
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another fine piece of production - the spoken word is just great at end too
another fine piece of production - the spoken word is just great at end too
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While it's an indictment of twenty-something malaise this is done in such a grand-standing way with these shiny, towering hooks that it almost romanticises wasting your youth on small bars on a Wednesday, blogging and not having your shit together. Hopium you evil geniuses.
While it's an indictment of twenty-something malaise this is done in such a grand-standing way with these shiny, towering hooks that it almost romanticises wasting your youth on small bars on a Wednesday, blogging and not having your shit together. Hopium you evil geniuses.
