Pain Gain — the new project from Chloe Kaul (Kllo), Hamish Lefevre (SWIM), and Samuel Cooke (CRUSH3d) — release their self-titled debut album, out now via Play It Again Sam. Written during secluded sessions in the coastal forests of southern Australia, the record emerged from a deliberate rejection of the trio’s established electronic frameworks, replacing club-oriented immediacy with slower, emotionally exposed songwriting.
They explain: “We went away together with only the intention of starting something new, we never expected that we would end up not only with an album, but one that feels as cohesive and collectively personal as this. It’s a record that looks for beauty in friction, and finding a new start in the wreckage of something past”
Listen below.
