EXEK – Prove The Mountains Move LP

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RELEASE DATE: 2/27/2026

For just over a decade, Exek has very quietly become one of the most hypnotic bands on the planet, mutating and growing fromrecord to record, gradually opening themselves up without everlosing that strange, inscrutable, altogether essential quality that’smade them so great-so Exek-y.On 27 February, the Melbourne post-punk outfit-vocalist and chiefarchitect Albert Wolski, guitarist Jai Morris-Smith, drummer ChrisStephenson, synth specialist Andrew Brocchi, trumpet-brandishingvocalist Valya YL Hooi, and bassist Ben Hepworth-will releaseProve The Mountains Move, their seventh album and first for DFA.It is, as Wolski says, “a bit more ‘epic’” than anything he’s recordedto date, a lush and unabashedly melodic set of surrealist pop thatluxuriates in contradiction. “This record is experimental in it’s craft,”Wolski says, “but it may not necessarily sound experimental.”There’s good reason for that. Work began on a cold afternoon inJune of 2023, as Wolski and Stephenson came together at PelicanRefill Studios in Melbourne to track drums-the first thing theyalways do. From there, Wolski went home on his own and begansifting through the beats and breaks they’d captured, letting thedrum sounds guide him towards melodies and basslines, loopingand layering and laying foundation for what would become ProveThe Mountains Move. “I feel comfortable tinkering away alone likea mad scientist,” he says. “I also enjoyed pressing record with noclear intention. More often than not, that would steer me towards aninteresting direction that my conscious mind probably wouldn’t havesought out.”