Cameron Winter – best known as the voice and restless engine behind Brooklyn art-rock outfit Geese – will bring his singular debut solo album Heavy Metal to Naarm/Melbourne this summer, performing a one-night-only, Australian-exclusive show at the Forum on Monday 9 February.

Presented by Handsome Tours and Laneway Presents, this performance marks Winter’s first appearance on Australian soil as a solo artist. Pre-sale begins Thursday, 7 August at 9.30 AM local time. General on-sale opens Friday 8 August at 9.30 AM local time.

Released in December on Partisan, Heavy Metal plays like a fragmented diary of transit and alienation – part improvisational sketch, part existential thesis. Composed on the move, in borrowed rooms, taxi back seats, and late-night public spaces, the album captures the disorientation of constant motion and the psychic static of modern life, filtered through Winter’s elliptical humor and off-kilter delivery. Here, Winter trades Geese’s wiry post-punk for something murkier and more intimate, echoing Arthur Russell, Scott Walker, or early Eno, yet landing fully in his own fractured world.

His Naarm/Melbourne appearance offers a rare opportunity to hear these songs rendered live, in a room as expansive and characterful as the music itself.