Welcome to the first Spouse Report on our new blog! We created this site as a way for us to take a more long-form approach to band updates and general internet connection in a way our other platforms don’t quite provide – we’re still not fully sure what that looks like yet (we will likely be sharing band news, upcoming shows, and Em is doing a monthly vlog) but we thought we’d also start by sharing what each of us got up to in March.

DAAN

Hi everyone! This month I completed a big grant application (wish me luck), played two awesome shows with Spouse in Syd & Melb, got new glasses, printed a bunch of shirts for Vanishing Sound & GUSH, hosted the final show of DIY Summer III, nearly got crushed under a car, had a few picnics, recorded Buffy’s EP with Felix (shoutouts) & played ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SHOWS EVER with Atlast at Shadows. I’ve been dealing with some severe burnout atm so I’m trying to take a step back and make time to see my friends more, which has been really wonderful and helpful. I’m feeling full of love and excitement for the rest of 2026. Lots to look forward to 🙂

A movie I watched this month:

I watched ‘Project Hail Mary’ this month. I had no context or expectations for the movie and went in blind (the best way). I was having the SHITTEST day when I went in and honestly this movie gave me such a profound sense of hope. The cinema was full and everyone was laughing out loud the whole time. It was so wonderful. It was truly one of those moments where I realised that laughter truly is THE BEST MEDICINE. I walked home from the city in the rain listening to the same Twine song over and over afterwards and was absolutely euphoric. 

An album I listened to this month:

This month I rediscovered my love for Good Charlotte and listened to ‘Good Morning Revival’ a bunch lol. It was one of the 2 albums I had on my IPod shuffle when I was a kid (that and Green Day’s American Idiot). I was listening to this album when I was like 5-7 years old which is honestly hilarious to imagine. I stuck a picture of the band on one of my school books under some clear contact and I thought it was cool as hell. Thanks Aidan for reminding me of this album 🙂

A book I read this month:

I’ve been reading ‘The Power Of One’ for the last couple months and am nearly done! I’ve been loving it and I plan to visit Bryce Courtney’s grave in Hall with my friend Ella once I’m done.

A photo I took this month:

This is an awesome cat on a leash that I saw when I was at Better Music

EM

I talked about my month so much already haha, went to Adelaide, played a nice show at the Bergy, and saw BJM with my awesome uncle Bill. I hope to do more recording engineering stuff next month, and to get back to Canberra to see everyone. 

A movie I watched this month:

I just watched “The Drama” with some lovely friends at Cinema Nova, it’s my first time being back there since I was 15 (was there to see Parasite on a horrible date). Glad to reclaim that cinema with a nice new memory, in general I thought that the rom-com is coming back in a big way, and to that I say hooray. 4/5⭐️

An album I listened to this month:

Album pick is Ultraista – Self titled – my coworker Kristjan showed me this at the beginning of March and I’ve been rinsing it, really awesome use of synth and drums on this. 10/10⭐️

I also can’t stop listening to the EP Self Noise – Short Snarl. I got to see them in Adelaide and was very moved, such beautiful music played by lovely people! 10/10⭐️

A book I read this month:

Galapagos – Vonnegut – pretty chewy read to start, I’ve been picking at it for longer than I care to admit but I think it’s starting to get good. 

A photo I took this month:

this is Josh and Ash after eating a soup that I made

JOSH

This month I played an epic show with Spouse and then immediately went on a White Boy Japan Trip™ – I hopped off the plane in Tokyo with a dream and my cardigan and everyone pointed and laughed at me and said “white boy! white boy!” even though I wasn’t even there to snowboard or take hinge pictures. I had a great time otherwise – I did a lot of walking, saw some cool local bands, bought some cool CDs and drove a swan boat out on a lake. Since arriving home I’ve spent lots of time with my partner, my dog and my lovely friends and have had plenty of exciting design and music projects to keep me busy, which I’m super grateful for. Keen to keep that up for the rest of the year 🙂

A movie I watched this month:

I watched Looper with some friends a couple of nights ago – I swore I hadn’t seen it before when we were choosing what to watch, even though it was pointed out to me that I had logged it already on Letterboxd. I watched with a fragile familiarity, eerily similar to the experiences of Bruce Willis’ character trying to remember his dead future wife while his Joseph Gordon Levitt younger self kept doing all that different shit. I don’t know if I just didn’t pay attention last time or if there’s some weird loop thing going on but it definitely made the whole experience more immersive.

An album I listened to this month:

I’m slowly climbing out of the dark and humid soundcloud-dariacore-brainrot hole I’ve been in for the past six months and have instead been seeking some fresh cold puddles to lie in. One of these puddles has been The Most Dear and The Future by ear – a super short indie project that came out last September. It’s got this kind of intermediate glitchy space around it that’s reminiscent of the aforementioned soundcloud hole, but sweeter and more comforting. The new Headache album is another one – ‘text-to-speech poetry over downtempo triphop’ comes across exactly as wanker as it sounds but boy those beats are just so good.

I also watched the Pavement documentary on the plane and it reminded me how much I love Slanted & Enchanted, so I’ve been revisiting that album too.

A game I played this month:

I didn’t read any books because I was homeschooled and cannot read. I did play the original Devil May Cry though, that shit rocked crazy style 😼 I was planning on playing them in a row but have been told to skip the second one and go straight to three, so it’ll either be that or the new Elden Ring next.

A photo I took this month:

the aforementioned swan boat

EZRA

I’ve been sick for what feels like the entire month, that and the rain has made me want to hermit. We’ve been writing stuff in At Last and that’s been rewarding. 

A movie I watched this month:

When Harry Met Sally – We watched this all together in Adelaide and I rewatched it recently. It’s a 5/5 for me, very stagelike and just trusts the people in it so much to carry it across, and they do. It’s the only example of an enemies to lover’s type thing where the enemy is my enemy (I hate him throughout a lot of the movie) and then I love him by the end. Normally it just ends up feeling predictable but their chemistry is just fantastic. Also the trivia piece that originally the ending was that they (spoilers) wouldn’t end up together, but that in the middle of writing Rob Reiner began dating his eventual wife and rewrote the ending because it had made him believe in love again, shut up it’s so beautiful. 

Word of the day here would be ‘uxorious’ which basically translates to wife guy. 

An album I listened to this month:

Imaginal Disk – Magdalena Bay

It’s a hard toss up for me between talking about this or Underscores U or Wallsocket. I’m in a big Hyperpop hole at the moment. I don’t know if Magdalena technically counts but you get it, computer music. I’ve been thinking a lot about Skrillex because of Ninajirachi, and these producers from when I was younger who were really going out there with computer music. I think a lot of this wave of stuff plays off nostalgia in an interesting way. 

I’m interested in dance music and party music that’s clearly made alone? There’s this aesthetic to a lot of it that’s very ‘ipod touch under the blankets’ that I just think makes for a much more interesting setting ultimately than like, the image that comes to mind of a lot of similar acts in the early 2000’s which is invariably like, glowsticks and stuff. Not to knock that, but I enjoy the contrast between the style of the music and where and how it’s being listened to. 

The Magdalena Bay album has just grown on me and grown on me, its use of motifs throughout make it so satisfying to listen through, great dance stuff, solid pop writing but just out there enough to make it really interesting, great videos too. 

Also that new Tiffany Day album slams. 

A book I read this month:

This month I’ve been reading through the Thomas Harris – Hannibal books, which was a mixed bag? Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs are fantastic thrillers with some really beautiful empathetic moments and characterisation. They’re quiet and measured and very lovingly made, and just read super easy. 

Hannibal however is fucking bizarre, in a way I think I enjoy? It almost seems intentionally trolly to the reader given that it came out after the movies had been released and Harris had seen the way that Hannibal Lecter came across to a wider audience. There were Cannibal memes being thrown around and I think that irked him? The book seems like a little spiteful. Not to mention it seems like he went on an Italian holiday and really wanted you to know about it. 

I stopped before Hannibal Rising because I’ve heard it’s total shit and he only wrote it because Dino De Lorentis made him. I’ve just started Vineland by Thomas Pynchon and am enjoying it a lot, it’s one of his cuddlier ones which I always enjoy, some of the others can be quite cold and his characters don’t get much in the way of warmth, but early on and this one is a lot of fun. 

A photo I took this month:

Spouse in an important meeting

EMMETT

I couldn’t say what month I’m referring too, since Feb started it has been one big month. Which was difficult but I think I’m going to just enjoy it. Week by week is fun. If all goes well each week has everything I could possibly want. See friends, make music, hang with housemates, talk to my dad, maybe make some furniture. Maybe I’ll make my blog post into a furniture blog soon. Anyone need furniture?

A movie I watched this month:

Rental family. Shit is gas, loved it. Stole the theme and made a song out of it

An album I listened to this month:

PRINT – kilu. It’s and ep but I don’t care about the rules. It’s also magic and makes me wish Coldplay was still making parachutes

A book I read/game I played this month:

Uhhhh… I don’t really get the time to read or play games. Me and Felix were playing minecraft a little bit ago. Our village is dope so are our pets dream boat and mega yacht 

A photo I took this month:

This is my hand holding a flip phone and a cigarette