Dives + Sluff

Formed in February of 2016, ever since the Viennese underground scene is shaken up by Dives‘ surf-ish sound. Dora De Goederen, Tamara Leichtfried and Viktoria Kirner first met at the Austrian Girls Rock Camp in 2016. In spring 2017 they’ve recorded their self-titled mini album with Austrian musician and producer Wolfgang Möstl (Mile Me Deaf, Sex Jams, Clara Luzia, Melt Downer …). This gem was released on Siluh Records in Fall 2017, including six songs as fresh and innovative as Dives themselves. Confidence and passion are what let them finish their first album that fast and resulted in Dives rising to a fixpoint in the Austrian Indie scene.
Friendship and mutual trust are associations popping up when seeing Dives play live. The two-part singing of Tamara and Viktoria sticks itself to one’s memory and makes songs like “Concrete” such catchy tunes. Following the great tradition of various other Girls Rock associated acts, Dives switch instruments and re-new what is thought to be traditional surf sound. They speak their minds, they challenge their listeners.
Dives are three friends, lacking all insincerity, doing what they like best – having a good time and taking the audience along on their journey.

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Viennese outfit Sluff are set to release their debut full-length: “On Debris”. An intensely emotional skyward journey, the three-piece have long mulled over their music, crafting indie slacker rock, ready to flirt with moments of soaring pop. Cold dreams, grand utopias, and a latent urge for change… There are some things out there worth looking for. With this in mind, Sluff set out on a voyage in search of solutions. Where did this lead them? To an album about slowly growing up; to a contemplation about the world and the world within.
While dream pop, krautrock, indie rock, and shoegaze were all key reference points for the creation of “On Debris”, it’s no nostalgia piece. Myriad influences have been blended and rethought into an emotive and fragile new sound all Sluff’s own.

Sluff: 20.30
Dives: 21.30