Jimmy Pitts
Agender is the synth-laced, queer post-punk project of Australian songwriter Romy Hoffman. Seven years in the making, Agender’s new album No Nostalgia is slated for a spring 2022 release. The album finds Hoffman and her band pulling inspiration equally from the jagged edges of punk icons Wire and the heady, institution disrupting movement of the French Situationists.
Without a doubt, Agender is a very intentional band. It comes across as Hoffman describes the idea behind the title of No Nostalgia. “When we live in a world where everything is nostalgic,” Hoffman says, “I’m trying to imagine a world with none of that, but it’s impossible.” She continues, “Even if I’m just commenting on society, it’s still referential to something, therefore relies on memory, therefore I’ve thought myself into a corner.” Resigning herself to this perpetual cycle she says, “It’s from this corner that I write.”
Hoffman is a creator in the truest sense. Making music since her teenage years, she’s played with Ben Lee in pop-punk group Noise Addict, recorded hip-hop for Kill Rock Stars as Macromantics, and released electro-pop songs as ROMY. After moving from Australia to Los Angeles, she began running Homoccult and Lez Croix, two of L.A’s biggest queer parties. In all this creation, the message is what’s important to Hoffman. She says, “I’m delivering something that needs to be said.”
Romy recently shared two of her illustrations with Music Fiends for Artist’s Art. You can check out more of her original art at drawnbyromy.com
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