About
Having the freedom to be yourself right now is a strange job. Everyone is ambitious and exhausted at once. Relationships come with rules nobody wrote down.
Rice Out The Window write songs about all of it, then play them loud enough to shake the walls.
Clancy and Gabrielle are a Melbourne brother and sister, and every song they write has a sibling. One writes what really happened. The other answers from their side.
Same stage of life, different memories, and neither gets the last word.
Their debut single, Runaway, came out in June through Community Music. It's a thank-you to the friend who gets you through, and it landed on Apple Music's New in Rock.
Now comes Hate You, out Wednesday, 2 December. It sounds like a fight. It's really about letting go: working out which problems are yours, handing the rest back and choosing yourself.
On Sunday 6 December, they launch it where it belongs: in a room full of people.
ROTW is a band built for the stage. The rhythm section hits like old-school pub rock. The guitars bite. The brass crashes in like a big band at a punk show. Out front, Gabrielle sings like it's 2am and she's finally saying the thing. Nobody plays it safe. Nobody stands still.
Expect Runaway. Expect Hate You. Expect a few songs you haven't heard yet, and two siblings arguing about the setlist. Expect to sing, dance and shout.
The lyrics might bruise. The music moves.
Bring your people. Come and join the Rice Mice.