Australian six-piece Coldwave is a frantic yet tightly controlled blend of jagged guitars, booming horns and uncompromising vocal delivery that captures the abstract in life’s most mundane moments.

The band was named Triple J Unearthed’s feature artist ahead of their performance at Adelaide’s 2023 Laneway Festival, seeing them share a bill with the likes of Fontaines D.C. and Turnstile.

Wielding a sound described as “post-punk pulse accelerant”, Coldwave’s EPs ‘Same Window, Different House’ and ‘No Conflict’ were met with glowing praise, the title track of the former touted as “precise in [its] chaos” (Dave McCarthy, Laundry Echo) and “like being plunged into an ice bath and set on fire” (Abby Butler, Triple J).

Off the back of a year supporting industry heavyweights including Pond and RVG, Coldwave’s upcoming release ‘The Ants / Italia ‘06’ sees the band exploring influences fresh and familiar.