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Our final album Filth comes out this Friday and it’s the most accomplished music we have ever made, if we do say so ourselves.

We’ve finally self-actualised and now we’re imploding. Sorry!

Preorders via collarbones.bandcamp.com.

Unreleased photos by Joe Brennan, 2016.

We danced in the crowd after our first overseas show at Camp A Low Hum 2014 in Wainuiomata, New Zealand. It was a freakishly beautiful time.

While it might not be as glamorous as performing Turning with Flume in LA in front of 20,000 people and having Lorde wish you a happy birthday, this was no less important or formative.

Accurate depiction of the crowd, sentiment, demographic and activities that will take place at the Collarbones farewell tour. Filth indeed!

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Rick Fischer ‘83

2013 was a busy year for Collarbones. We played about 40 shows that year alone.

We brought in 2013 by supporting Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Midnight Juggernauts on the central coast of NSW.

Made a quick stop at Sugar Mountain where we were broadcast on Boiler Room and played amongst Dirty Projectors, ESG, HTRK and Laurel Halo.

Travis played the Space Jam theme song at the Big Day Out silent disco with Animal Collective in Adelaide.

We then rigorously toured with Jessie Ware, Clubfeet, Chela and How to Dress Well.

Russell Crowe came to the Jessie Ware show after making friends with her on Twitter. She was an immaculate performer.

That guy Chris Lilley was at the Clubfeet show for some reason. Who invited him?

There was a party with Van She hosted by the Australian idol Rob Mills. Rob came up to Travis and stressed that Collarbones should be bigger than Frank Ocean.

We played at the Australian Museum amongst dinosaur fossils and News Corp did a photoshoot with us. Succession, eat your heart out!

The rigour continued as we did the rounds yet again with PVT, Dappled Cities and Owl Eyes.

Following that, we played Vivid, the Freemason’s Hall with Kaytranada, Carriageworks with The Presets, stopping off at Strawberry Fields. We were destitute but felt so rich.

At the very end of 2013, we were asked to play with one of our favourite overseas bands, Deerhunter.

They’ve been nothing but extremely lovely each time we have interacted.

2013 was capped off by us receiving this glowing review of our Deerhunter support slot. Those 40 shows paid off!

What a year it was.

Collarbones and Grant Ionatán (aka HTMLflowers) by Elliott Lauren Ryan, 2012.

Handwritten verse by Grant from the Die Young era.

RIP Aaliyah, River, Left Eye, Collarbones.

Ecstatic to announce the supports for our farewell tour! Some dear old friends and new friends alike.

These are some of the most forward thinking, original performers, musicians and selectors this country has to offer.

Handpicking these lineups made us wish we had the resources to curate a whole festival! But this is it. This is our festival. Don’t miss it. Tickets: Melbourne / Naarm - Northcote Social Club - June 30 Sydney / Eora - Marrickville Bowling Club - July 1 Adelaide / Tarntanya - Ancient World - July 7

When MARCUS WHALE OF COLLARBONES is speaking to NME, we listen.

You too can own the incredible Filth t-shirt, an exclusive piece of Collarbones history.

It was designed in collaboration with our creative director bigshot Killjoy.

Chakra Efendi wears the shirt on our album art and posters and features on the opening track of the album.

Timeless design, pure comfort, Collarbones forever.

Preorders via collarbones.bandcamp.com.

We will be personally sending a digital download of Filth to everyone who preorders a shirt.

Our first ever show was at Cosmo’s Rock Lounge in Marrickville on July 17, 2009.

We had just released our Waiting for the Ghosts EP and played with several post-rock adjacent bands including Signal Hill from LA, sleepmakeswaves and Clairaudience.

It was a very different time. As you can see, Travis had several Tumblr and The Cobrasnake stickers on his laptop and was wearing a Jurassic Park hat.

Travis forgot to switch the power on and the laptop cut out during the set. Marcus did his best Björk impression from behind a fold out table.

For some reason, a juggalo was in attendance at this quaint post-rock show.

Take yourself back to July 7, 2010. A time when Best Coast, Perfume Genius, The-Dream, Salem and James Blake were all over Pitchfork.

We were teenagers who had yet to release an album. We woke up that morning to Pitchfork calling our single Beaman Park a “smooth, stuttering jam”. Words can’t describe the way our egos grew.

To commemorate the anniversary of this momentous occasion, our last ever show will be on the very same day this year.

Every iconic band needs a tell-all exposè to go with their final album and farewell tour.

We’ll have no shortage of those if this article over at CityMag is anything to go by.

2,000 words of pure Collarbones lore, if you’re into that. And who isn’t!

We are feeling so canonised right now.

“We haven’t lived up to the standard set by Flume so I’m not sure what ‘reception’ really is anymore. I cry at night sometimes…”

“I’m really into Linkin Park right now, I’m rediscovering my favourite band when I was 9. Nine Inch Nails…I’m going through an angst phase”

Two years after this interview with Beat Magazine, we were remixed by Flume. Ten years later, we released the angsty nu metal single Lack.

It’s not just a phase. Collarbones forever.