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Sodastream breakup
Published on 19/02/07
by matt
Karl Smith and Pete Cohen announced they’ve broken up their band Sodastream, in a short post to their website yesterday.
It feels like the moment the band’s waited a whole career for, given their music is so well suited to breakup and the ensuing bouts of melancholy. The Perth then Melbourne duo’s spectrum swamping double bass and keening vocals stuck out in Australian music from the time they were picked from obscurity by an excited John Peel. But after 10 years, five albums, a handful of EPs and live records, and truckloads of gigs, it seems like the right time.
In a recent interview to promote their UK tour, the duo came across as tired and generally over it all.
They will be missed. But there will be reunion gigs, and something tells me the resonance of Sodastream’s music will only swell and mature with time.
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matt
21/02/07
Dave from Across the Rooftops says, “Karl’s presumably going to ramp up Small Sips (with the Matts from Paradise Motel). And Pete’s played recently with Because of Ghosts and The Guild League and Richard Easton and etc.”
I love all those other groups, like Richard Easton, yeah!
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