MAITLAND electronic dance duo Kinder admit they were once too naive in the ways of the music industry to follow their own instincts.
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However, those days are over. With several years behind them playing festivals such as Falls, Splendour In The Grass, Listen Out and Groovin The Moo and sharing stages with international stars Marshmello and RL Grime, sisters Briony and Savannah Osei are firmly in control of their own destiny.
On Friday Kinder will release their new single Come Along, an athemic and high-energy celebration of their Ghanaian heritage and family.
"Our music's changed a lot," Briony Osei said over Zoom from Sydney. "I think at first we played it a bit safe and were scared to mix genres.
"We wanted to mix Brazilian bass drops with pop melodies and we were told at first that it sounds like a remix, so you shouldn't do that.
"So we thought we'd stick to the pop sound. Now we've grown into what we want and if we wanna do this, we're gonna do it. We were so new at it and were so influenced by people telling us what to do and now we're like, 'Nah, this is what we wanna do'."
Come Along even features a gyill, a Ghanaian xylophone, which was performed and recorded by a musician back in the west African nation.
Due to COVID-19 and the subsequent closure of nightclubs and restrictions on dancing, Kinder have been limited to writing and recording new music in 2020. Briony and Savannah have amassed several singles they plan to release before delivering a debut EP in 2021.
When nightclubs finally reopen, Briony is expecting a massive comeback for dance music.
"We keep saying club music is going to have such a moment," she said. "There will be such a strong appreciation for it.
"Here in Sydney the nightlife was already suffering so it's gonna have a real moment when we can party again."
THRASHED OUT
DASHVILLE'S feisty little brother festival, Thrashville, is returning after a one-year hiatus on February 13 and promises to deliver heavy riffs thick and fast.
Sydney prog-metal band Battlesnake are one of the four acts announced, alongside sludge-grunge band Astrodeath, punks Scabz and Newcastle's heavy metal act PurEnvy.
Fans of Judas Priest, and even King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, will enjoy Battlesnake's doom's day riffs, wails and dystopian tales of wizards and dragons.
Meanwhile, Dashville have also released plans to host a three-night concert series, starting on New Year's Eve to farewell what's been a horrendous 2020 for most people.
A Fresh Start will be held on December 31 and January 1 and 2, with four artists performing each night from 6pm and camping included, just like Dashville's Skyball concert series in October. The line-up will be announced shortly.
TORI SHOWS LOVE
AHEAD of her comeback show for Great Southern Nights at the Wickham Park Hotel on Saturday, Kurri Kurri's Tori Forsyth will release her new single Courtney Love on Friday.
It'll be her third track from her forthcoming second album and hints at a continuation of her shift away from gothic-country towards a '90s alternative-rock sound.
Forsyth has spent the majority of the year living on her parents property on the Sunshine Coast and due to current border restrictions between Sydney and Queensland she was forced to cancel her Mary's Underground show next Wednesday.