Swapmeet: Mount Zero [WINSPEAR]

Why you'll love it

Adelaide's Swapmeet took home two 2024 South Australian Music Awards, Best Song among them, before they'd made an album, then became the first international band signed to LA's Winspear. Rolling Stone named them one of the most impressive new acts at SXSW 2026, and Mount Zero is where it all comes together.

This edition

• Winspear pressing
• Nine songs, opening with the single "I Know!"

About the album

Swapmeet met as teenagers in Adelaide and spent a while gigging as Sour Sob, until a local musician called Soursob Bob sent them a cease and desist. The new name came from the swap meet where Maxwell Elphick bought his guitar. Their self-recorded EP Oxalis (named after the botanical name for a soursob, naturally) cleaned up at the 2024 South Australian Music Awards, with more nominations than any other act.

Mount Zero, recorded at a beach house in Noarlunga, takes its name from the range halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. It's jangly, warm and slightly ramshackle guitar pop, with Venus O'Broin's vocals out front and two guitarist-drummers (Elphick and Jack Medlyn) swapping roles behind her, plus Joshua Doherty on bass. "I Know!" and the title track are the way in, and "My Heart Breaks II" is a lovely way out. Anyone who's ever lost a band name to a man called Bob will feel seen.

Tracklist

Listen

Out July 17, 2026 on Winspear (cat# WSP079).