COME FOR THE DRUMS AND STAY FOR THE MOON.
“Fucking Magnificent” – The Music
“The most intriguing and wild project on the Australian underground scene.” – Expansión Radial MX
Following their breakout debut at Dark Mofo that NME ranked among the festival’s best, and a string of local successes in Mexico City, Hobart/Nipaluna duo Axon Breeze return on July 24th, 2026, with their new single, April Fools.
The latest track from their debut album A Thriving Sky (due late 2026), April Fools sits between destruction and devotion – the urge to burn everything down against the pull of staying.
“It’s doom, but Autechre – the hip-hop era. Woozy and enormous, yet tender in ways you don’t expect from something this heavy.” JR Brennan (Axon Breeze)
The song draws from Smoke Em If You Got Em, an obscure 1988 Australian film about a party at the end of the world. What was originally a guitar-drenched doom track, had a facelift during a 5.7 earthquake JR experienced in Guatemala. When he and producer Aaron Cupples returned to the studio, the song had been knocked loose – doom built on a heavy, loose hip-hop knock. The production changed. The feeling didn’t. A song about things ending and letting them.
In line with the narrative of the audio, April Fools will be paired with an accompanying music video shot on location in lutruwita / Tasmania by photographer Jesse Hunniford. Filmed inside a concrete military bunker, the shoot captured extreme close ups of friends getting tattooed by drummer Sam Dowson, and an unexpected encounter with local medieval LARPers who wandered into the frame.
With its standout lyric, “I came for the drugs / I stayed for the moon,” April Fools confirms why The Music called the band’s work “fucking magnificent“. It’s a track that demands you come – for the drums – and stay – for the doom.
April Fools will be available on all stores Friday the 24th of July.
