Jonnine of HTRK’s intoxicating ghost story “Tea For Two (Boo)” languishes at the border between the ordinary & the uncanny

, 2 February 2023
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Jonnine is releasing a second album, Maritz, via Paris’s Idle Press on February 16, with preview track and music video for “Tea For Two (Boo)” premiering on AQNB today. The Mount Dandenong-based singer-songwriter—also known as Jonnine Standish—stepped out from her role as one-half of glacial post-punk duo HTRK, to drop her debut solo EP Super Natural in 2019. Since then, she’s released the warm and romantic album Blue Hills via Boomkat, followed by superb signals to her droll sense of humor as tracks like “Do you need to do wee wees” through Bandcamp.

That playful element to Standish’s oeuvre shines through on “Tea For Two (Boo),” where an eccentric account of a rendezvous between ghosts in a graveyard staggers over a reverb-soaked kick and bass section, as she sings, “Would you like honey, Joe?/ Or maybe camomile?” Puncturing Maritz’s typically glowing odes to nature soaked in the fairy tale atmospherics of “Can I Trust the Flowers” or the broken metronome and guitar-led instrumental number “Three Spider Bites,” this third lead single is a stunningly woozy amble into Standish’s peculiar predilection for languishing in a space between the ordinary and the uncanny.**

Jonnine’s Maritz LP is out via Paris’s Idle Press on February 16, 2023.

HTRK – ‘Blue Sunshine’

21 February 2014

Jonnine is releasing a second album, Maritz, via Paris’s Idle Press on February 16, with preview track and music video for “Tea For Two (Boo)” premiering on AQNB today. The Mount Dandenong-based singer-songwriter—also known as Jonnine Standish—stepped out from her role as one-half of glacial post-punk duo HTRK, to drop her debut solo EP Super Natural in 2019. Since then, she’s released the warm and romantic album Blue Hills via Boomkat, followed by superb signals to her droll sense of humor as tracks like “Do you need to do wee wees” through Bandcamp.

That playful element to Standish’s oeuvre shines through on “Tea For Two (Boo),” where an eccentric account of a rendezvous between ghosts in a graveyard staggers over a reverb-soaked kick and bass section, as she sings, “Would you like honey, Joe?/ Or maybe camomile?” Puncturing Maritz’s typically glowing odes to nature soaked in the fairy tale atmospherics of “Can I Trust the Flowers” or the broken metronome and guitar-led instrumental number “Three Spider Bites,” this third lead single is a stunningly woozy amble into Standish’s peculiar predilection for languishing in a space between the ordinary and the uncanny.**

Jonnine’s Maritz LP is out via Paris’s Idle Press on February 16, 2023.

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