Stonetrip have arrived with something worth hearing. The Melbourne five-piece have released ‘The Fight’ EP on CD independently, with the digital release via Golden Robot Records on March 20th. Five tracks of dust-inspired, melody-driven rock from a band that has spent years building a live reputation as intense and immersive as anything on record.
The title track “The Fight” sits at the emotional core of the release. It’s a song about the tension between longing and inertia, the space between who you are and who you’re trying to become, where the horizon pulls hard but timing keeps pushing back. Mark Ritchie, Mick Malusa, Simon Croft, Sebastian Barahona, and Brett Spicer lock into a sound that is raw, reflective, and built to last. Driving guitar hooks, pounding rhythms, and vocals that move between anthemic and introspective without losing either quality.
Stonetrip draw from classic rock sensibilities and modern indie grit in equal measure, crafting songs that feel equally at home in festival crowds and intimate laneway shows. Their catalog speaks to travel, struggle, hope, and escape, universal themes delivered with the kind of specificity that makes them stick. This is a band that writes from experience, not from trend.
‘The Fight’ EP is out now on CD. The digital release lands March 20th via Golden Robot Records. Five tracks that confirm Stonetrip are one of Australia’s most compelling rock acts working right now.