Touch Typist

Touch Typist Touch Typist are a Melbourne-based band that play levitating space-race instrumentals and flying car freak-outs with lyrics about alternate realities and the beauty of household objects. The band is made up of Nick Huggins (guitar/vocals), Mark Gretton (drums) and Tig Huggins (electronics). Described as pop-noise and in the same breath as Broadcast and Battles, their influences include Delta blues, Detroit techno, Hendrix, Dirty Three and the Warp Records back catalogue. Live, they channel these influences and create something all their own, a sound that can whisper melodic sweetness before launching into nuanced electro-acoustic assaults.They've contributed to Feral Media's Pow Wow series, supported Caribou, helped launch the Super Eight Diaries and contributed to the Albert's Basement Vinyl compilation all in their first year of playing as Touch Typist. Their 2007 Pow Wow release You Cannot Kiss a Laughing Mouth has received significant airplay on RRR, FBi, PBS, JJJ and has been featured on the ABC's arts show.They are currently working on a debut record due in early 2009.