INTERVIEWSStream Lost Animal's Full, Pop Macabre 'Ex Tropical'

The Melbourne duo's debut in its entirety, one week before its release on Hardly Art

When Jarrod Quarrell was 16, he found himself trading blows with a skinhead outside of a bar in his native Australia. The damage done to the cartilage in his nose in the process has made his voice distinctly adenoidal, as heard on Ex Tropical, Quarrell's Lost Animal project's haunting, keyboard-driven debut. Littered with marimba presets, blood-spackled crime scenes, and unshakable melody, it's an extraordinarily dark pop record made darker still by Quarrell's sneering, Dan Boeckner-like delivery. You might say he won that fight. 

• 03:59PlayLost Animal — (Intro) Beat Goes On
• 04:31PlayLost Animal — Say No to Thugs
• 05:18PlayLost Animal — Buai Raskol
• 03:00PlayLost Animal — Don't Litter
• 02:47PlayLost Animal — Cold Cut Nature
• 03:11PlayLost Animal — Ex Tropical
• 05:39PlayLost Animal — Lose the Baby
• 04:00PlayLost Animal — Greylands
• 05:48PlayLost Animal — Old Lovers
• 04:00PlayLost Animal — Sundown