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Melbourne’s instrumental electronica outfit Evening News share their new EP with the crazy 'Kaboom'!

Building upon the house and soul foundation of their debut New World, the record pushes further into the strange corners of electronic music, combining jungle and IDM with live-band sensibilities.

The foundation for 'Cupid’s Plan' was tracked over two days at Dune Castle Studio in Melbourne, the band all performing at the same time to capture the core elements and energy of each track. Keyboardists Winton Findlay and Christy Wositzky-Jones then added additional production elements in a home studio to build upon the bedrock laid by the band.

One of the core elements of 'Cupid’s Plan' is the tension between a live rhythm section and an increasingly synthetic world. The title track builds synthesiser layers above driving drums and bass, while the sprawling 'Pigeon Shuffle' captures the band's stranger side through shifting sections, progressive structures and a warped sense of nostalgia.

The tracks were developed over a number of shows in Japan in 2024, allowing the band to road-test new compositions to audiences and gain feedback in real time. The response of those audiences became part of the writing process: sections were extended, tightened or rearranged according to what worked in the room.“Those gigs are definitely the reason the record exists,” says Findlay. “We wrote these tunes that we all agreed were pretty original, strange and cool, and the response was always super energetic. The record is really the byproduct of that.”

That live history remains underneath even the EP's most heavily produced moments. 'Cupid’s Plan' is music created by a band that gradually found its way deeper into an electronic world.  "To the listener, hopefully it sounds something like you’re at a club in a game that was released in 2006, and you’re watching this band perform,” says Findlay. “And that’s us.”.

Another great addition to the Dune Castle collection like Tony Soprano Band's 'Downtempo 1' (see review HERE) and Cantrips' 'From A Darebin Cave' (see review HERE) that are all worth checking out.

BUY LINK / PRE-ORDER: Cupid's Plan | Evening News

Artist:  Evening News    

Title: Cupid's Paln

Release date: 13th November, 2026

Label : Dune Castle

Catalog Number : TBC

Format:  12" Vinyl / Digital / Bandcamp