Death By Denim

Death by Denim come out of Perth with the sort of chemistry you only get from a band that started as mates before anything else. The four piece of Palle Mazzulla, Nikolas Iliadis, George Gunson and Hamish Macarthur formed in 2016 and found their footing in a pocket between surfy indie rock, woozy synths and hooky guitar lines.

Things really moved when Wiggy landed in 2019, climbing into the top end of triple j’s most played list and lining them up with Lemon Tree Music on management. That run tipped into their debut album Sleepless and Sunkissed in 2020, which pulled in multiple triple j high rotation adds, national touring, a deal with Paradigm for UK and European bookings and invites to showcase at BIGSOUND50 and SXSW’s first digital edition.

Rather than reset, they went straight back into the studio and came out with Moonbow in 2022, a second record that leans harder into melody and synth texture without losing the coastal guitar heartbeat. Feels Like Fiction arrived as an early signpost, written as the soundtrack to a kind of existential spiral over morning coffee, while Shores kicked the album into gear with one of their most up-tempo, riff-driven tracks. Moonbow dropped via ADA/Warner and set up their next chapter of headline tours, regional runs and a Like A Version cover of Harry Styles’ Watermelon Sugar that pushed them in front of a wider crowd.

Since then they’ve kept feeding the catalogue with EPs like My House is a Club and DBD and singles that edge into more electronic and club-ready territory, all while passing the 20 million stream mark and building a live reputation alongside acts like Ocean Alley and Teenage Dads. It feels less like a reinvention and more like a band stretching out their universe, one release at a time.