Free Range 6: SCRAPS, BlackBlue Tulpa, Ode2Joy

Free Range sounds, sunny side up. Our Thursday night sound club goes to upside-down-pop-town.

SCRAPS is back at the IMA! Inhabiting her own hazy space between club beats and keyboard pop, Laura Hill's SCRAPS project has been dropping arpeggiated analogue bliss-bombs for over 20 years. Since her defining bedroom masterpiece Classic Shits left its mark on the Meanjin/Brisbane underground, she's expanded her sound world over a beatsy drift of albums on Moontown, Fire and Not Not Fun. A local treasure and live favourite—come for soufflé, leave with lemon pop.

BlackBlue Tulpa offers bedroom zoned confessionals, written like no-one's listening and performed like the audience is the boudoir mirror. BlackBlue Tulpa stands and delivers, spilling their heart into the mic over a home-baked backing track. Tell it like it is! Perfecto—just like eggs gently folded with tabasco.

Ode2Joy is the auto-tuned pop exultation of Alistair Taylor, an open-eared sound traveller whose practice includes drumming for Meanjin/Brisbane's post-prog explorers Pious Faults. O2J conjures a complex, ecstatic pop music that is melodically timeless, packs serious sonic clout, and carries the dusty digital decay of Fennesz's Endless Summer era. Recent live sightings report the Ode con guitarra, so let's see what sweet mystery awaits. Shakshouka.

Doors at 6pm.