Naarm/Melbourne-based independent label, Dinosaur City Records, will host a label showcase at The Lansdowne, Sydney on Thursday October 20. The event will also serve as an album launch show for Workhorse's debut album No Photographs and e4444e's third full-length record I Spend All Day Drawing a Circle. Solo Career, the late-night bedroom pop project of Annabel Blackman, and buzzing new act Daily Toll are on support.

Launched in 2017, Dinosaur City Records' dedication to championing work from the Australian underground has seen them release artists such as Workhorse, Punko, Solo Career, Pillow Pro, Skydeck and e4444e to acclaim from Guardian, NME, Music Feeds, Pitchfork, Paper, Fader and Beat among others, with regular support from community radio across the country and multiple nominations for the AMP (Australian Music Prize) and FBi Radio SMAC Awards.

This event takes place on the land of the Gadigal people of the Eora nation. We pay our respects to all elders past, present and emerging and acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

e4444e

e4444e, the project of enigmatic multi-instrumentalist Romy Church, will release the elegiac and bittersweet I Spend All Day Drawing A Circle, on September 30 via Dinosaur City Records. The record features singles 'Zero', 'The Whistler' and 'Sunday Taking Me to the Mangroves', released over winter to acclaim from The Guardian, NME, The Australian, Pilerats, The Music, Music Feeds and Tone Deaf among others, with spins across community radio stations 4ZZZ, PBS, 3RRR and RTR, and rotation adds on FBi Radio and 2SER. An immersive and poetic album rich with otherworldly melodies, the new record contains some of Church’s most experimental and expansive compositions to date; each track is an intricately-arranged vignette, with Church using guitar fuzz, backyard field recordings, and drone to create beautiful and celestial soundscapes.

His work has also involved testing the limits of live performance. Earlier this year, he landed a coveted spot to launch his sophomore album Autumnal Eve at the innovative Sydney venue Phoenix Central Park. Recently, he has collaborated with lovedavid and choreographer Skip Willcox on ‘Invisible Stone’, an immersive art performance for which he wrote the live score.

Workhorse

Workhorse is the western-tinged, dream-pop project of singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Harriet Fraser-Barbour. Debut album No Photographs took inspiration from Australia's vast landscapes, queer western films, apocalyptic dreams and the sounds of Julee Cruise, Chris Isaak and Mazzy Star, and was released to acclaim from The Guardian, The Music, Pilerats, Music Feeds, CityMag and New Commute, was selected as Album Feature/Album of the Week on 3RRR, PBS, RTR, 2SER and Edge, plus added to a handful of coveted Apple Music and Spotify editorial playlists.