“i cant believe it” the latest single from Queensland indie outfit Colleen Ave, has just dropped. Built on punchy guitars, glistening synth lines and the kind of widescreen hooks designed to ricochet around festival grounds at sunset, the track feels like a band rapidly outgrowing the small-room circuit without losing the emotional sharpness that got them there in the first place.
At its core, “i cant believe it” is about emotional confusion inside a love triangle, but Colleen Ave avoid turning the song into straightforward heartbreak confessionals. Instead, they lean into contradiction. The track moves with euphoric momentum while lyrically circling hurt, uncertainty and emotional disorientation, creating that strange collision where vulnerability becomes strangely exhilarating.
Sonically, the band continue refining the mix of synth-pop sheen and indie-rock urgency that has steadily become their trademark. There are traces of shimmering late-night melancholy underneath the big choruses, but everything is delivered with enough immediacy to stop the song from collapsing under its own emotional weight.
Outside the music itself, the band have also begun carving out space within the wider Australian scene. Their self-created festival Hair of the Dog, which recently featured Bootleg Rascal as headliners, speaks to a group interested in building community as much as momentum.
