The Broken Needles

THE BROKEN NEEDLES are a Melbourne-based independent rock band originally hailing from Townsville, North Queensland.

Their debut album, the maniacally rain-drenched, feedback-soaked TERRA NULLIUS was released in early 2012, prompting Rolling Stone to declare it a, “Wet-season postcard from Psychoville, N.Q.”

Their second studio album, HOLY COAST – to be released in June 2014 – sees the band’s ferocious twin-guitar attack gracefully supplanted by billowing synth textures, meandering pedal steel lines and baroque string arrangements; igniting a flickering, slow-burning lounge flame with a pulsing undercurrent of detached lunacy and seroquel soul.