About Violent Soho
Artist Biography
Hailed as flannelled successors to Nirvana and The Vines, Violent Soho emerged from the Brisbane suburb Mansfield as scrappy teens in the mid-aughts. The band cemented their alt-rock cred by signing to Sonic Youth guitarist Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label and enlisting Pixies producer Gil Norton for 2010’s self-titled second album. Lead single “Jesus Stole My Girlfriend” even rivaled the Pixies’ quiet/loud dynamics, thanks to frontman Luke Boerdam’s sudden lurches from slacker drawl to feral scream. But it was 2013’s hook-crammed Hungry Ghost that gave Violent Soho their proper breakthrough, especially in Australia. Staging anthemic ambushes like “Covered in Chrome”—whose surprise shout of “Hell f**k yeah!” become an instant fan favorite—the grunge-steeped band proved that their whiplashing shout-alongs belong firmly in the here and now. Capturing the malaise of living through bushfires and a pandemic, 2020’s Everything Is A-OK is another bracing portrait of a fraught era.
Hometown
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Genre
Alternative
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