@ (At) + Ellie O'Neill

Ellie O’Neill at The Hare & Hounds Birmingham

Songwriters Victoria Rose and Stone Filipczak have a pact, a devotion to each other and to the music of @. In their solo existence, Victoria works as a beekeeper and Stone as a self-taught computer programmer, but when they get together, they become a singular, avant-garde songforce. The East Coast house-show circuit first brought them into each other's orbit. Both Victoria and Stone are long time participants in the D.I.Y. music world, with their own separate histories in basement noise shows, warehouses and all ages spaces (Victoria has several records under the name Brittle Brian, and Stone has most recently gone by the pseudonym E.R. Visit). Over time, the two began collaborating long distance, and soon developed the @ formula - half Victoria songs, half Stone songs, with each filling in the cracks of the other's compositions.

On their new album Autosmile, the band's first with the legendary indie label 4AD, @ have harnessed their unique process to reimagine the psychedelic folk tradition as an undeniably contemporary artform. @ are a coalition, a team, a two-headed cat, and their collaboration has led them, onceagain, to fascinating and timeless results.

Support from Ellie O'Neill.