The eight five two

The eight five two marks a sense of graduation. Hailing out of the collective efforts of the de la Hoyde brothers, known for their work individually and collectively through electronic artist and writing project D.E.L, pop artisan Nick de la Hoyde and alternative rock outfit Monks of Mellonwah, The eight five two marks more than just a new divergence in that path, but one in which all others converge. Having spent years of their youth growing up in Hong Kong’s Lantau Island, in a small place fittingly called Discovery Bay, brothers John, Joe, Nick and Timm all carry a sense of that identity with them - an association with what it’s like to be a fly on the wall, sponges to new cultures and new ideas. Moving back to Australia, they each found their own way to music, Joe and John through the various band project and then onto composing and production, Nick who found music whilst playing football in Barcelona, and Timm whose love of Asian culture saw him in Tokyo’s midst, taking manga drawing classes whilst discovering Ableton. Years later, with various achievements and musical and artistic experiences under their belt, the four have come together, spending weekends exploring new musical ideas that had culminated from years of experimentation. The music is vast, sonically intimate and simultaneously elaborate. It feels known and yet unexplainable, yearning vocals tug at a pop sensibility but are drawn away by dissonant guitar motifs and jittering granular synthesis and percussion. The feeling is that The eight five two is more idea than a band - a club. A home for the unexplainable ideas and feelings that swim through us and out into the world.