“Australian seven-piece Koi Child break all the rules: their outrageously joyful, jazzy, psych-y hip-hop colors all the way outside the lines, with its breezy flow and rich production strokes from Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.” The Fader

Koi Child’s highly anticipated debut self-titled LP is available now as digital download, vinyl, CD, and stream:

Shows

YOOO we're taking our brand new-ish single, Touch 'Em, on an Australian tour! Hot singles in your area etc etc. We're lucky to have some crazy good supports for this one, playing some smaller intimate (read: steamy) venues. Last time round, the shows sold out pretty quick - so get those party tickets before they, too, fall prey to Senate voting reform.

Tour event page

"Touch 'Em" tour poster, with illustrated art depicting lots of interwoven long disembodied hands poking at a "Touch 'Em" logo and doing a variety of activities like snapping their fingers. Tour poster
Pre-USA Rosemount Show
North Perth, WARosemount Hotel
with:

Grace Barbé + Grievous Bodily Calm + Koi DJs

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Post-ARIAs headline show
Sydney, AustraliaHudson Ballroom
with:

Godriguez + Body Type

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Koi Child USA Tour
Brooklyn, NYC (USA)Brooklyn Bowl
with:

King Holiday

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Laneway Festival 2017
Lilyfield, NSWSydney College of the Arts
with:

A.B.Original + AURORA + Bob Moses + Camp Cope + Car Seat Headrest + Clams Casino + Fascinator + Floating Points (live) + Gang of Youths + GL + Glass Animals + Jagwar Ma + Jess Kent + Julia Jacklin + Koi Child + Luca Brasi + Mick Jenkins + Mr. Carmack + NAO + Nicholas Allbrook + Nick Murphy (fka Chet Faker) + Roland Tings + Sampa The Great + Tame Impala + Tash Sultana + The Julie Ruin + Tourist + Tycho + White Lung + Whitney

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Strawberry Fields 2016
VICregional
with:

Moodymann + Black Milk + Remi. + Nai Palm + Swooping Duck + Sex on Toast + SILENTJAY & Jace XL + Vulture St Tape Gang + 30/70 + Allysha Joy + András [Full Live Band] + Bradley Zero + The Cactus Channel + Electric Wire Hustle + GROENI+ Lossless + Oscar Key Sung [DJ set] + Planète + Prequel + The Shaolin Afronauts + many more...

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Official Showcase @ SXSW
Austin, TX (USA)Half Step

Watch the music videos for Touch 'Em, 1-5-9, and Black Panda:

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Koi Child is a seven-piece hip-hop group based in Fremantle, Australia. Birthed in 2014 from the collaboration of two local bands, Kashikoi and Child’s Play, their electronic hip-hop and prog/jazz-rock fused to create something unique, establishing them as one of the most impressive emerging acts in Australia. A chance witness to the band’s first performance, Kevin Parker of Tame Impala offered the band a support slot and mixed their debut LP, recorded on a small island shack south of Perth.

The album’s thunderous second single ‘Black Panda’ has made waves, receiving high rotation on triple j and Apple Music’s Beats 1 with Ebro Darden, heavy US college radio play including KCRW, and reached 2015’s most-played lists across Australian community radio. Online, the track received apt praise across notable sites such as Earmilk, The Fader and Noisey, whilst their first single ‘Slow One’ received big love from Zane Lowe on BBC Radio 1, who formally branded the group “Future Radio 1 Artists”.

In March 2016, the band released their self-titled debut LP via Pilerats Records / Warner Music Australia to great critical reception, as well as debuting on the ARIA charts at #6 in the Urban category and #25 overall. The album was nominated for the 2016 ARIA Award for Best Urban Album and won four  2016 WA Music Awards for Best Album, Best Urban Act, Most Popular Act, and Most Popular Video.

The unlikely hybrid has excelled in the live arena, selling out headline shows across Australia; supporting Tame Impala along their national tour and playing for Hiatus Kaiyote, Fat Freddy’s Drop and Young Fathers. After hitting Australian festivals such as the St. Jerome’s Laneway national tour, Golden Plains, Southbound, and Strawberry Fields, they’ve just returned from their first US tour featuring at SXSW.

“Fremantle seven-piece Koi Child are breathing new life into the hip-hop genre.”
The Guardian Australia

“…the freedom of The Roots’ Illadelph Halflife-era soul/rap duality and the rhythmic hybridity of the early-90s Native Tongues collective.”
Rolling Stone Australia

“Koi Child are fruit loops in a world of cheerios. They are colorful, unique, and entirely themselves. They transcend genre and are willing to take music in directions that are unprecedented in the scene today.”
Indie Shuffle

“…the beauty of this exciting self-titled debut is that it doesn’t feel like a patched-together Frankenstein creation but rather a single, strong, rhythmic entity, with different facets that catch the light depending on which angle you approach it from..”
Sydney Morning Herald

“Koi Child’s dynamite execution of their music shows that the hype is absolutely authentic.”
TheMusic.com.au

“If Koi Child’s upward trajectory continues at its current velocity, then it’s surely only a matter of time before the group begins charting a path to world domination.”
FasterLouder

“One of the most compelling live acts in the country”
Beat Magazine

“Koi Child have carved out a space of their own in the Australian music landscape.”
FBi Radio