Icehouse

One of the most revered bands to emerge from Australia during the New-Wave era, ICEHOUSE were equally distinctive for their stately synth-pop and for the romantic grandeur that filled their songs.

A trained oboist and professional performer since the age of 16, frontman Iva Davies established the band—then called Flowers—in Sydney in 1977.

They swapped out their name before the release of 1980’s Icehouse, a debut album that showed the lessons Davies absorbed from the Roxy Music, David Bowie, and Ultravox covers in Flowers’ early setlists.