Armlock make music for having your head in the clouds. On their new album, Seashell Angel Lucky Charm, the Australian duo of Simon Lam and Hamish Mitchell take you through a steady ascension into heavenly sonic realms.

The band’s second proper release, and first for Run For Cover Records, Seashell Angel Lucky Charm taps into the songwriters’ roots in experimental electronic music and filters them through an indie rock lens. Drawing the listener in close with crystal-clear guitars, tight rhythms, warm harmonies, and sparse arrangements that leave room for character and eccentricities, the result is an album of inventively minimal music that does a lot with a little.

Capable of recording and engineering the whole project themselves, the pair never needed to be precious with studio time. Instead, they preferred venturing down songwriting rabbit holes, chasing down a feeling, and layering ideas at their home studios, unsure where a song would ultimately land.

“There’s no real distinction between writing, demoing, and final production; it’s all done at the same time,” says Lam. “It’s a workflow that is much more common in electronic music and how we started making music together.”