Cinematic Sydney instrumentalists Decoder Ring launched their new album The Stars They Blind, And The Wild Team at the Metro theatre in Sydney last weekend.

TheVine photographer Will Reichelt took some exceptionally beautiful photos (including those of supports, Bridezilla and Seekae). Yes, yes instrumental music doesn't need such exciting visuals to translate live but...it sure does help with photos. Particularly when Decoder Ring utilise the employ of a projectionist so effectively. We even asked them about it in our interview with the band last week:

Is Simon K (projectionist) still a "member of the band"? I remember seeing you years ago in tiny, tiny rooms that would have this great scaffolding contraption at the back with projectors and whatnot. Could the band work without it?

Simon and his trusty legion of 16mm projectors are still most certainly part of the band, as is his scaffold. We like to have this luddite component – I mean you could sequence our tracks and the visuals and play the whole thing off a laptop. The thing is it would be a completely different experience. Without all the heavy artillery the spirit gets lost a bit, so we like to play live and for the visuals to be off the multiple projectors. I mean I still am always completely caught up and lost in the show when I am playing – I think its the way we combine music and visual live that sets us apart from other bands and what makes it a Decoder Ring show.

The band play in Melbourne this Saturday 5th September as well as at Homebake in December.