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New Sydney pop duo Cat & Calmell has shared their glittering debut “dumbshit” after its premiere on triple j on last week.

Cat & Calmell is a new pop duo from Sydney

Darting between darkly-lit pop and shimmering R&B, the duo’s first single reveals a talent for transforming conversations they have together and online, with their already present audience, into swirling, genre-fleeting moments of brilliance.

Cat (20) and Calmell (22) have a rich history of performing together. Cat spent her childhood in China and moved to Sydney as a young teenager. Calmell is Filipino-Australian and was born and raised in Western Sydney. Stars aligned when the two met at an after-school program for developing artists.

Cat & Calmell’s music reflects their multi-faceted upbringings and their wide-ranging influences and sources of inspiration: Kali Uchis and The 1975 to Rihanna and T.S. Eliot, Powerpuff Girls, and Twitter memes.

Meanwhile, “dumbshit” is the first song they wrote together almost two years ago.

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“It’s about being in your youth and not taking anything seriously; enduring the repercussions of doing dumb shit and just copping it on the chin,” the duo said of the song.

“dumbshit” treads a path lyrically and musically of wistful R&B reflection and wanton disregard – a good metaphor for Cat & Calmell.

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