New Music: Placement – New Disease

Hailing from Adelaide in Australia, Placement take post-punk to some very melodic places on New Disease. The quintet’s mix of smooth vocals, frenetic sax and vibed-out, komische guitar solos are certain to find favour with fans of Sonic Youth, Drahla, and Tropical Fuck Storm. This is one disease that deserves to go viral!

Reveals vocalist Malia Wearn, “Placement played our first show at the start of 2020 and soon found ourselves struggling to exist in a world where live music in its usual form was not possible. The ghost of the threat of sickness seeped into every part of life, and of course our music.”

That did impact on their output, as she continues, “New Disease is a pandemic song. It’s about the things we believe in, and how they change and distort us, forcing us away from or towards reality. Confirmation bias, isolation, coping mechanisms whatever they are, we who are here made it through, but of course we are changed. Sometimes all we need is to be fed a line we can hold on to, an excuse to keep doing whatever we want to do. All of us caught the new disease, whatever that was, and we were never the same again.”

New Disease can be downloaded on Bandcamp, while you can listen to the song and more music from Placement on Apple Music and YouTube Music. Head over to the group’s Instagram and Facebook socials to learn more about the band and their music.

Header photo by Emerald