Everything eventually connects
And in hindsight all makes sense
Theres no coincidences
Just cooperative incidence
It happens as if by accident, though some older part of you knows the choreography was set long before you could walk. Two lives drift in vast, indifferent weather, until some invisible wind lays them, for an instant, together. A glance, a word, a touch…lightning caught in cupped hands. Time, with its patient erosion, will take the particulars: faces, places, the feel of air that day. Yet something, secret and incorruptible, remains. Choice sharpened it, chance delivered it, and circumstance held it still long enough to be seen. All else falls away, but that moment hums in the dark forever.
Australia’s High Control Group channels this sensation with their latest single, Hole In Heaven. The Melbourne outfit fold in the ghostprint of early ’80s UK post-punk: The Chameleons, Joy Division, The Sound – then lace it with unexpected turns from shoegaze, Krautrock, proto-punk, and new wave. The result: hooks that cling, atmospheres that feel lived-in but inviting, and arrangements that whisper like something overheard in the next room.
Hole In Heaven wanders the borderlands of fate, coincidence, and collision. It carries the weight of films like Crash and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, where lives intersect with impossible precision, and every meeting feels preordained. Lyrically, Hole In Heaven acknowledges the impermanence of all things while holding fast to the moments that survive it: those rare intersections where time, choice, and circumstance cohere. It’s the kind of song that suggests every collision leaves a trace, even if the map is erased.
Will Parker’s accompanying video heightens the effect: an enigmatic figure, part philosopher, part manipulator, sits before a wall of CRT televisions, watching strangers cross like constellations. In another scene, they rearrange a miniature city, bending the geometry of lives. Retro-futurism rubs shoulders with allegory, pulling the song into its own myth.
Watch the video for “Hole In Heaven” below:
The band’s roots trace back to Parker’s bedroom, where the drummer for GLAS NOST began shaping his fascination with post-punk into something more cinematic. Momentum gathered quickly, drawing in players from Hideous Sun Demon, Boat Show, Japanese Heart Software, and U-Bahn. Together, they make music that feels both archival and alive, steeped in the bittersweet atmosphere of their influences while sidestepping imitation.
Listen to Hole In Heaven below and order the single here.
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