Everything eventually connects
And in hindsight all makes sense
Theres no coincidences
Just cooperative incidence
Melbourne’s High Control Group arrive like ghosts from a different decade, bearing the scars and shimmer of early ’80s UK post-punk. What started as Will Parker’s introspective sketches has since expanded into a full band featuring members of Hideous Sun Demon, Boat Show, Japanese Heart Software, U-Bahn, and others. Together, they conjure something both steeped in history and restless in its reinvention.
Their latest single, Hole In Heaven, first released in July and now reimagined in a live session at Melbourne’s Big House Studios, distills those obsessions with fate, chance encounters, and mortality into four minutes of stark beauty. Hole In Heaven builds around a lattice of arpeggiated synths and restrained guitar figures. The rhythm section holds steady with krautrock insistence, allowing tension to simmer until it bursts. There are echoes of Gary Numan’s chilly futurism and Sad Lovers & Giants’ windswept melancholy, but High Control Group strip these influences of nostalgia, instead folding them into a contemporary urgency.
At the center is Parker’s voice: a baritone that deadpans with Curtis-like detachment, yet carries the haunted conviction of Adrian Borland. The lyrics circle themes of converging paths, cosmic coincidence, and the inescapable fade of all things — but also the persistence of memory, the strange endurance of feeling even when flesh and time betray us.
The live recording arrives with a self-directed video from Parker, assisted by videographer Matthew Nolch. Multiple cameras capture the performance with the hazy grit of an unearthed VHS, a fitting frame for a song that feels unstuck in time. Analogue glitches and muted tones amplify the sense of dislocation, as though the footage had been sitting in someone’s cupboard since 1983, waiting for rediscovery.
Watch the live video for “Hole In Heaven” below:
High Control Group inhabits the terrain where yearning collides with dread, where the drive for human connection meets the inevitability of its dissolution. Listen to the single version of Hole In Heaven below:
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