Cry Club is a queer pop-punk duo from

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, Australia, who formed as a group in 2018. They released their debut album ''God I'm Such a Mess'' in November 2020. Their second ''Spite Will Save Me'' was released on June 23, 2023.

Biography

The duo was formed in

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in 2018, when vocalist Heather Riley wanted to form a

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cover band. Riley had known Jono Tooke since 2014, when they met during a university-organised trip to Japan and bonded over the animated series ''

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''. The band's debut single, released in 2018, was a response to the 2017 same-sex marriage plebiscite in Australia, inspired by conversations with relatives who accepted and loved them as family members, but were adamantly voting against same-sex marriage. The group's follow-up single "DFTM", a song about people not respecting physical boundaries at concerts, was added to full rotation at

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in April 2019, and the duo became the most played act on Triple J Unearthed in 2019. The band relocated to Melbourne, and in 2019 released their debut

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''Sad, But Make It Fashion''. The duo released their debut album ''God I'm Such a Mess'' in November 2020. The album was nominated for Best Independent Punk Album or EP at the

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, and the band was nominated for best breakthrough act at the

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. Cry Club's second studio album ''Spite Will Save Me'' is scheduled for release in June 2023. In an album review, Ellie Robinson from ''

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'' said "It's brash, dramatic and camp, but also beautiful and empowering."

Personal lives

The members of the band identify as queer. Riley identifies as

non-binary Non-binary or genderqueer Gender identity, gender identities are those that are outside the male/female gender binary. Non-binary identities often fall under the transgender umbrella since non-binary people typically identify with a gende ...

, and uses they/them pronouns.

Discography

Studio albums

Extended plays

Singles

Awards and nominations

AIR Awards

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2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

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Music Victoria Awards

The

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References

External links

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