Australian indie electronic project, No Mono have released their first single, “Butterflies.” With its first pulse, the song draws an immediate hold on the listener, deeply immersing them into the otherworldly sounds of the new project from two of Australia’s brightest artists—the Alice Springs-raised Tom Snowdon and Tom Iansek.
The pairing began in 2014, when a connection was sparked by the now-hibernated #1 Dads project, which bore witness to two collaborations between Snowdon and Iansek: “Return To” and a cover of FKA Twigs’ “Two Weeks.” The songs left a lasting impression on Snowdon and Iansek, and it’s taken until now for new music to surface in what is a collaboration of the minds.
Of the collaboration, Snowdon says, “For the past two years we’ve been developing songs for this project, which we recently recorded at the Pieater studio in Collingwood (BellBird). We like similar music and sounds and are great friends. It’s been a very intuitive process. That’s what this project is really about—exploring and cultivating our artistic relationship, we just follow our ears and our guts.”