Cry Club 'This, Forever' Tour

Guitarist Jonathon Tooke (he/him) and vocalist Heather Riley (they/them) made their explosive debut as Cry Club back in 2018, and even back then they were turning heads with their surprising, textured take on modern punk-alt-pop. And yes, there’s a lot of genre-dashes when it comes to Cry Club. It’d be doing them a disservice to leave any of their studied references out.

If you haven’t heard of Cry Club yet, don’t worry – the coolest person in your friend group already has. Triple J have thrown their weight behind the duo, running their debut record God I’m Such A Mess as a spotlight album during the week of its release and adding several of their releases to high rotation over the years.

They are, as your cool friend will likely inform you, big in Europe – local radio in Germany and Denmark in particular have picked up recent singles with gusto. Their top ten tracks on Spotify have garnered a collective 2.3 million streams, a deeply impressive trend that is echoed in their entire discography’s strong appeal across all DSPs.

The last two singles from Cry Club, High Voltage Anxiety and For Your Health, were self-produced by the duo, offering them uninhibited freedom to push their sound as far as it would go. The result is something like the bolt-and-screws interior of a complicated metallic machine; catching light in strange and beautiful ways as the cogs whir and turn.

In between writing and producing their new record, the duo have supported glam rock legends The Darkness on tour, and embarked on their first European tour where their bright, heavy sound was embraced with open arms.

Every moment in this new music from Cry Club is pressurised, immersive, all-encompassing — and yet, despite the wall of noise, every decibel is considered with curiosity and care. Every sound has a reason for being.

For fans of: Nine Inch Nails, The Prodigy, Rage Against The Machine, Run The Jewels