

With a name plucked from the Penguin classics catalogue and the scrabbly, pitch-imperfect sound of college corridor guitars, Dick Diver strike a perennial chord that's rung from the Velvet Underground through the Go-Betweens to Yo La Tengo. The melancholy Melbourne share-house poetry of guitarists Rupert Edwards and Alistair McKay distinguished their wryly titled New Start Again album of 2011. Its follow-up, Calendar Days, added a confident rummage through the school orchestra cupboard en route to their first US tour and several nominations for Best Album of 2013 back home. Album three, Melbourne, Florida, consolidated their position as new princes of Australia's proud jangle-punk lineage in 2015.