Beam Cottage has been a lifetime in the making. Lillie Flynn has long been part of her brother Johnny’s backing band, the Sussex Wit, but they have been making music together for as long as they can remember. Maybe that…
Elena Tonra is of two minds about almost everything. She created Ex:Re in 2018 to examine the overthinking that gnaws at her constantly, along with traveling she used as to escape her own mind. There was never any thought of…
For a band whose first cassette was released in 1992, the 34-year gestation period for The Cat’s Miaow’s debut album, When You Smiled And Turned Away, seems a bit extreme. Yet things aren’t quite that simple. Melbourne’s Bart Cummings and…
Balance is overrated. Nothing is ever quite what it seems. 3, the third long player from Penelope Isles revels in moments where stability may not quite be within reach. Dreams are deferred, stains don’t always come out in the wash.…
A self-professed “folk music dork” in high school, Jake Xerxes Fussell doesn’t find satisfaction in creating songs. Instead, he digs through the dark corners, rediscovering of folk songs, mining regional variations, trying to realign and recontextualise tunes for the twenty-first…
How many moments make up a life? Laurelyn Dossett has spent over thirty years writing songs for others, songs performed by the likes of Levon Helm and the Carolina Chocolate Drops. She’s written music for plays, toured with the North…