Free Range sounds, sunny-side up.

Francis Plange: Once described as a guitarist with a museum in his head. Plagne’s sound world is a Wunderkammer of Canterbury styling, musique concréte curios, and notes collected from Italian library music. His extraordinary run of recent albums will become the stuff of legend. Joined on bass by fellow Naarm/Melbourne-based curiosity collector Alex Macfarlane, expect a set of delicate song craft from two of the finest.

Pious Faults: After blazing a trail of hardcore decimation across the US in 2018, Meanjin/Brisbane’s Pious Faults arrived in Europe, already ingesting prog-rock cookies and befuddling continental punks. A leaked copy of their much-awaited second album now finds them sounding like Scott Walker in cahoots with Ligetti. An expanded line up at the IMA sees ubiquitous Alex Macfarlane and local string bender Kahl Monticone join the fray.