Melbourne’s Convenience Store have always made music that walks the tightrope between confession and cinema, and on their debut album Tabis, they push that balance to its most ambitious and affecting extremes. 

Written and recorded DIY in their basement studio, Tabis is a record about illusions: the stories we tell ourselves to survive, the doublespeak of growing up, and the disorienting sense that nothing in life ever fully resolves. Named after the Japanese split-toe shoe that conceals five toes within the illusion of two, Tabis are steeped in multiplicity. Like the shoe itself, these songs walk the line between deception and truth, artifice and honesty.

Convenience Store may be children of the internet, but Tabis is anything but ephemeral. It’s deeply considered, sonically ambitious, and full of bruised, beautiful truths. An album about movement, memory, and the weight of meaning and perhaps, more than anything else, about continuing to walk forward even when you don’t know where you’ll end up.

Convenience Store is Nick Baker, Jack Phillips, Vincent Barker and Alex Siderov.