Die Young

Collarbones' 'Die Young' was written over the course of a year, during the promotion of the duo's 2011 debut album 'Iconography'. Inspired by recollections of teen crushes - the naive, vulnerable yearning at the heart of adolescent experience - the songs emerged as a tribute to the modern mythology of youthful desire. Framed by a soundtrack of jilted R&B instrumentals, 'Die Young' joins with whole generations mourning for their fallen idols. Adelaide's Travis Cook and Sydney's Marcus Whale met on the Internet and over the course of several years, and divided by 1150km, they pieced together a sound informed by geographical distance but basking in the warmth of digital proximity: the electronic hum, the LCD glow, the metallic sheen of laptop culture formed the unlikely basis for a sound that embraced its digital origins.