Third Eye Stimuli's beloved Melbourne alt-rock and dream pop band Arbes are set to tour their applauded debut album Counterways across the East Coast this April. Arbes will be performing headline shows in Melbourne, Sydney, Kiama, Brisbane as well as other dates with stellar lineups in Wollongong and Byron Bay. See below for tickets and more details.

TICKETS & RSVP:

April 3 Melbourne/Naarm - The Curtin [TICKETS]

with SHERESY & special guests

April 4 Sydney/Eora - The Vanguard [TICKETS]

with Julia Why? & Misty Lanes Space Station

April 5 Kiama/Wodi Wodi - Fillmore's [TICKETS]

with Sevilles

April 6 Wollongong/Dharawal - Pepe's [FREE]

with special guests

April 11 Brisbane/Meanjin - Felons Barrel Hall [FREE]

with Tessa Fleur

April 13 Byron Bay/Bundjalung - Bangalow Bowlo [TICKETS]

with Gut Health, Delivery, Royal Ratbags, The Sleeves & Media Puzzle

May 25 Hobart/Nipaluna - Mona Lawn [FREE]

“An impressive set of kaleidoscopic psych-pop and sophisticated art-pop that balances warm, dreamy songs with fuzzy, magnetic cuts.” — Alex Ruder KEXP (USA)

Arbes' debut record Counterways invites listeners into an unusual sonic world of atmospheric depth. Comparisons can be drawn to New York post-punk of a more colourful bent, running Blondie all the way through to Gang Gang Dance. The dream pop of Scotland’s Cocteau Twins has always been apparent, while the album’s gritty art rock juxtaposed by ambience brings to mind Deerhunter. Glimmering flashes of psychedelia lend from the likes of Melody’s Echo Chamber. Counterways is a gentle warmth rubbing against the frisson of something verging punk, in the exploratory and not commodified sense. The mythical and the urban converge: dense, ghostly reverberation meets the functional whirring of a city. But most prominent is the sense of something blissfully airborne tugged gently to the earth; that is Arbes’ own region.