Review: HTRK use desolation to their advantage on their first album in 5 years, Venus in Leo

Some music is better made at a steady pace, with a point, aim and method. For HTRK, each release cycle has come with a purpose. Their music, a result of their steadiness and narrative, gathers a range of emotions and desolate sounds that best represent their havoc. Before the burdened, yet fantastic, Psychic 9-5 Club, the Melbourne duo encountered turmoil, rebirth, readjustment, mourning and acceptance. In recent years HTRK have experienced the death of their bandmate Sean Stewart and close coll...