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  • Pop
Melbourne, VIC

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Track: Covered In Snow by Hyfrydol
Track: Covered In SnowGenres:
  • Indie
  • Pop
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    (Pronounced "High-fra-doll") It was only a year ago when Hyfrydol’s Kat Wells was splitting time between living in London and completing a residency in Laboratoire de la Creation in Paris. Dreaming up melodies on a Fender Rhodes in the basement of an old terrace in 1er arrondissement under the Hyfrydol moniker (a hark back to a childhood of pipe organs and church choirs), Wells developed a sound influenced equally by soundscapes of grandeur from the likes of Working For A Nuclear Free City as the low-fi tape hum of early Sleeping States records. Upon returning to Melbourne, this distinctive song-writing style took hold and the Hyfrydol project grew steadily from a solo act to a four-piece band with luscious vocal harmonies and complex layers of polyrhythms. Recording in friends’ garages and a local church with a Tascam 4-track, and using everything from looped violins and saxophones to kitchen percussion, Hyfrydol worked hard on recordings and developed an utterly enchanting live ...

    Members

    Kat Wells - vocals
    combo organ
    violin; Andy Clarke - vocals
    guitar; Stuart West - bass; Rob Eggleston - drums;

    Sounds Like

    Broken Social Scene, Sufjan Stevens

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