Biofilter

BIRDSNAKE

Released 21 November 2025

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Psychedelic infused downtempo electronica exploring the line between digital and organic. A free-flowing sensory combination of acid jazz, drones, textures and dubbed out rhythms.​

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Melbourne quartet Birdsnake (comprising Winton Findlay, Leon Sebastian, Ayden Thorne, Jacob Minarelli) are back with Biofilter, a synth-forward fusion of acid jazz, trip-hop, psychedelia and electronica. While their palette draws from well-established traditions, the band’s approach is anything but derivative. Across the album, they smuggle in unexpected influences: metallic circularity reminiscent of gamelan patterns, a taste for atonal groove, and a widescreen cinematic sensibility. The result is a debut that feels both carefully sculpted and instinctively playful, suggesting a group still discovering - and delighting in - the breadth of its own possibilities.

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What impresses most about Biofilter is the subtlety of its inventiveness. Birdsnake operate within recognisable frameworks, yet each track contains a twist that nudges the listener off-centre. “Rare Amulet” and “Bugbite” pulse with gamelan-like cycles, their chiming repetitions creating a hypnotic undertow beneath the band’s smooth, synth-heavy glide. “orange276” expands the album’s cinematic range, unfolding in patient, widescreen layers that feel almost storyboarded. The atonal funk of “Ancient Signal” shows the quartet embracing rhythmic friction, while “Hydrostatic Pressure” struts with an off-kilter swagger that keeps the groove intriguingly unstable. Throughout, the production is clean but never sterile, allowing the band’s textural curiosity to shine.

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Biofilter may nod to its influences, but Birdsnake sound most compelling when they’re bending those references into their own slightly skewed contours, marking this as a strong debut full of promise.

 

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