The Kill Devil Hills - MATANGO! (2024)

What is Matango!? A radioactive fungus? A B-grade Japanese horror film? Or could it be, perhaps, just simply the best album The Kill Devil Hills have put their name to yet? - Sam Farringdon, Junction Records

Birthed over those few years of pandemic bio-weirdness, MATANGO! Is a sinewy beast, a fever-dream-radio, full of sonic and literary twists, turns, crashes and contradictions, bit like the rest of life, really? Following a slew of low-key single drops MATANGO! Releases is full, officially on March 6, 2024.

THE KILL DEVIL HILLS formed in sun-bleached Perth, Western Australia, in 2003 as a quiet acoustic folk project, quickly swelling ranks like a looming tide, until 20 years, several children, and a few divorces later it has settled down (sort of) as 5-piece purveyor of tuneful rock / folk / post-rock cacophony, beautiful bastard noise, ugly but honest ballads, and gene-spliced sonic travesties... in other words, a rock band with a heart of mud and coal. Six albums later, with a seventh due early in 2024, the band has toured extensively in that time: Australia of course, but also to North America, and several tours to Europe. An entrancing, visceral, emotive, sensual and usually very loud live act, this is one of those special Australian mutant bands that only remote continents can cough up, a species confined to islands, fever-dreams, and occasionally to strut the stage a while. Inhale the MATANGO! and catch them if you can.