Armlock has been played on NTS in shows including Yesterday's News, featured first on 15 August 2023. Songs played include El Oh Vee Ee, Fear and Ice Cold.

Friends for 14 years, Simon Lam (vocals and guitar) and Hamish Mitchell (guitar and keyboards) havebeen in their fair share of musical projects together and apart. The two met studying jazz at MonashUniversity in Melbourne, eventually discovering ashared love of electronic music. After a handful ofelectronic and dance outlets (I’lls, Couture, Kllo) Armlock came together through the band’s naturalcamaraderie and comfort with collaboration, and the two began incorporating guitar into the music theywere making for the first time.

Capable of recording and engineering the whole project themselves, thepair never needed to be precious with studio time. Instead they preferred venturing down songwritingrabbit holes, chasing down a feeling and layering ideas at their home studios, unsure where a songwould ultimately land.