JULIA STONE REVEALS NEW SINGLE “FIRE IN ME” FROM UPCOMING LP

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Julia Stone has today revealed the newest single from her forthcoming album Sixty Summers - “Fire In Me”. With its glam rock stomp and Stone’s haunting vocals, “Fire In Me” is one of Sixty Summers’ most instantly striking tracks. Co-written with Dann Hume, the glamorous pound of “Fire In Me” mirrors the song’s lyrical content, which describes the feeling of “fire in your belly”,  the ability to be, or do, anything one wants. Brightened by a ‘Bond-like’ string section from album co-producer Thomas Bartlett, “Fire In Me” easily evokes the heat and strength of Stone’s lyrics. 

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A compelling and formidable song about the internal strength within everyone, "Fire In Me" highlights Stone’s gift to take us to all the corners of the emotional arena. “For me, "Fire In Me" was about creating a feeling of pure energy,” Stone says of the song. “I love the feeling when the music sounds like what the lyrics mean,” she describes. A true international effort, "Fire In Me" came  together between Sydney with Dann Hume, New York with Thomas Bartlett and in Annie Clark’s (aka St Vincent's) studio in L.A with the horn lines recorded in infamous Sing Sing studios on Chapel St, Melbourne.

"Fire In Me" stands as the fifth taste of Julia Stone’s third solo album Sixty Summers (now due for release on April 30 due to a delay in vinyl production). It follows “We All Have (feat. Matt Berninger)” - a tender ballad featuring unmistakable vocal of The National’s frontman, the dreamy, rose-coloured “Dance”, the ethereal and otherworldly “Unreal” and, her first single in more than 8 years, “Break” - an exciting and dizzying song drenched in dazzling moonlit pop. The aforementioned tracks join nine others on Sixty Summers, the scope of which is dizzyingly vast. 

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Her first solo album in eight years, Sixty Summers arrives as a powerful rebirth for one of Australia’s most prolific artists. Emerging from the wildernesses of folk and indie-rock, on Sixty Summers Stone dives headfirst into the cosmopolitan, hedonistic world of late-night, moonlit pop. The stunning album brings us the grit and glitter of the city, with all its attendant joys, dangers, romances and risks. It is Stone at her truest, brightest self, a revered icon finally sharing her long, secret love affair with this vibrant and complex genre.

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Recorded sporadically over five years from 2015 to 2019, Sixty Summers was shaped profoundly by Stone’s key collaborators on the album: Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, and Annie Clark, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer known as St. Vincent. Bartlett and Clark were the symbiotic pair Stone needed to realise her first pop vision. A wizard of production and songwriting, Bartlett helped coax Sixty Summers’ independent, elemental spirit from Stone, writing and recording over 30 demos with her at his studio in New York. Itself a thoroughfare for indie rock luminaries, some of whom, such as the aforementioned Matt Berninger from The National and Bryce Dessner, ended up on the album, Bartlett’s studio was perfect fertile ground for Stone’s growth. “Making this record with Thomas, I felt so free. I can hear it in the music,” says Stone.

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Miles away from Stone’s past work, Sixty Summers is a world unto itself, a surreal and breathtaking new landscape. Where Stone’s previous solo records, 2010’s The Memory Machine and 2014’s By The Horns, found her grappling with the natural darkness that comes with loving too much, Sixty Summers finds Stone claiming every part of herself: fire, fury, love, lust, longing. Touching on reference points as disparate as the avant-funk of Talking Heads (on ‘Break’) the romantic 2am musings of Serge Gainsbourg (“Free”, “Dance”) and the sleek, ecstatic synth work of Lorde’s Melodrama (“Substance”), Sixty Summers is an album you can dance to and one you can lose yourself in completely. 

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PRAISE FOR JULIA STONE

“Julia Stone: folk pop princess no more.” - SYDNEY MORNING HERALD 

“When you think about the last couple of decades in Australian music, there aren't many voices, if any, that have been as ubiquitous and game changing as that of Julia Stone's.” - ABC ONLINE

“Euphoric” - ROLLING STONE

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SIXTY SUMMERS TRACKLIST
01 Break
02 Sixty Summers
03 We All Have
04 Substance
05 Dance
06 Free
07 Who
08 Fire In Me
09 Easy
10 Queen
11 Heron
12 Unreal
13 I Am No One

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DONOVAN WOODS ANNOUNCES WITHOUT PEOPLE (DELUXE), SHARES ALBUM TRACK / VIDEO FEATURING CHILDREN’S CHOIR

DONOVAN WOODS’ WITHOUT PEOPLE (DELUXE) OUT FRIDAY, MARCH 26 VIA MEANT WELL

DELUXE EDITION OF WITHOUT PEOPLE ADDS FOUR BONUS TRACKS (TWO NEW ORIGINALS AND TWO ALTERNATE MIXES) 

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In 2020, Donovan Woods released Without People via his own Meant Well label. It’s an album that ranks as Woods’ most successful release with more than 10 million streams and climbing. Due March 26, a new deluxe edition of Without People adds four bonus tracks (two new originals and two alternate mixes) and is available for pre-order now. 

A new piano rendition of “Grew Apart” cuts right to the bone, and an acoustic interpretation of “Whatever Keeps You Going” pairs Woods with the pure voices of the J.P. Robarts Public School Music Project in London, Canada. 

The school’s choir (consisting of grades 3-8) formerly sang with Woods in 2019 at one of his concerts in London. Woods always knew he wanted to feature the choir on a project, but during the pandemic, Woods learned that while the schools had reopened, the children were only allowed to hum during choir practice due to the nature of health and safety protocols. He then, with the help of their parents and choir director, Jane Kennedy, enlisted the children’s choir to individually submit homemade cell phone videos of themselves singing the song. All 19 students were able to share the “stage” again with Woods through this video.

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“This deluxe version is really in place of what live shows might’ve been like if the pandemic hadn’t happened,” says Woods. “Among my favorite parts of playing live are presenting songs in a different context and introducing new material, and this deluxe version is doing that type of work.”

For an album made so piecemeal, Without People has been acclaimed as “strikes a gentle, poignant note” (Billboard), “a nuanced experience” (American Songwriter) and a thoughtful exploration of ““fleeting interpersonal moments now under the microscope” (NPR/KUTX) and “various aspects of human connection” (Rolling Stone).

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LAL SHARES CIEL REMIX OF “END OF THIS WORLD TOGETHER”

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“END OF THIS WORLD TOGETHER” (CIEL REMIX) IS AVAILABLE TO BUY AND STREAM ON DIGITAL PLATFORMS MARCH 19

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METEORS COULD COME DOWN, OUT NOW VIA COAX RECORDS

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“Filled with poetry, protest and resilience … When you think of Canadian electronic music with a punk ethos and experimental bent, that’s LAL.” Forbes Magazine

“With Meteors Could Come Down, LAL revel in minimalism, finding fresh ways to blend the au naturel qualities of Kazi's voice and Murray's posthumanist soundscapes.” - Exclaim!

“With its downtempo cinematic sweep and cosmic fatalism, Meteors Could Come Down finds hope in a moment stripped of capitalism’s routine, extending an open hand to show new searchers the way.” - New Feeling

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Recently, LAL shared the Phen Ray remix of “End Of This World Together” off their new record, Meteors Could Come Down, out now via Coax Records. And today, they are sharing the video for another remix of the track from celebrated Toronto artist, Ciel. “End Of This World Together” (Ciel Remix) will be available to buy and stream on digital platforms tomorrow, March 19 here.

It is great pleasure that we present this remix,” says LAL’s Nicholas Murray. “Ciel is someone who we have watched grow and develop into a global talent at the same time embodying a local toronto spirit. Her remix for us speaks to a Toronto that had no musical genres in clubs. It bends and weaves into an expression that is well known to the darkest clubs and most cavernous warehouses. We employ you to join in the vision of this remix in solidarity with the community and all that came to take part.”

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MORE ABOUT METEORS COULD COME DOWN
For over two decades, Polaris Music Prize longlisted electronic duo LAL (comprised of Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray) have built a catalogue of silvery, internationally-influenced electronica that insists that the dancefloor remain a place of resistance. In the process, they’ve become the backbone of Toronto’s sprawling DIY scene, nurturing and propping up a multi-generational group of artists.

Recorded in the early months of 2020, Meteors Could Come Down finds LAL looking inward, examining the intricacies of their own relationship to understand how to provide care to their community. Experimenting with minimalism and a concise inventory of sounds, the album explores for the potential for open space offered through drums and voice—dually centering on the richly dynamic textures of Kazi’s vocals and Murray’s skilled ear for world-building through silvery synths and drum beats—to hold a great deal of emotive weight.

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It advocates for a complicated kind of hope that’s only available when the end feels near: that’s at times slow and grating; confusing and confounding; and urgent and breathless. On Meteors Could Come Down Kazi and Murray capture a lofty anticipation that’s uniquely available to artists who have long been on the frontlines of radical change: hope for the energetic transformation into a new world.

Their 7th album, Meteors Could Come Down captures the spirit of a season fueled by a moment of pause that stoked the embers of revolution. Inspired by road trips along the coast to radical DIY arts scenes in Oakland and Olympia, and Adrienne Maree Brown’s bestselling book Pleasure Activism, Meteors Could Come Down is both their most minimal, and intimate, album to date. 

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