Institut Polaire are literally Perth’s next big thing. Down the barren end of Oxford Street, far away from the sneaker shop, late night café, independent cinema and cat accessory shop, there is a purple house. Erik Hecht and Dave Phirkettle-Watts, respectively the singer/guitarist and bassist in Institut Polaire, have parked across the road, the second last stop on a tour of their rehearsal spaces in Perth. They’re ...
This EP feels more like a double A-side single than the half album its tracklist makes it out to be. The two hit songs, the springtime traipse ‘The Fauna and the Flora are too Closely Aligned’ and the more tempestuous ‘East, West & I’, are bracketed by lilting prologue ‘Kentucky Society Drought’...
Highly-rated Perth outfit Institut Polaire have inked a deal with Sydney-based label Popfrenzy, becoming that company’s first local signing. With a line-up that can number anywhere from seven to nine members, Insitut Polaire’s spacious sound takes in 60s pop, psychedelia and noise aggregations. The ...
Institut Polaire and their freshest smiles decorated Beck’s Verandah after Camera Obscura had played, left with an easy task of continuing the shiny happiness, as if the Human Torch had been put in charge of a statewide bushfire. Spread out like sentries over the stage, poised for their unequivocall...