Melbourne home studio dreamers Tom Iansek and Joanna Syme began to balance roughshod rock, hip-hop techniques and soporific undertows on The Mini EP of 2009. A slew of mercurial satellite singles followed, but it was their weather-themed Four Seasons EPs of 2010 that gave due warning that Big Scary was a dark horse looming on Australia's art-rock fringe. Sure enough, the elegiac majesty of their sublime second album, Not Art, confirmed a seemingly effortless arrival. Multiple Best Album nominations culminated in the Australian Music Prize in early 2014 and a 32-city trek across the club stages of North America.