Contrast

ContrastTen years ago, Tanya George started writing the songs that would become her debut album Contrast. The album took relationships ending, savings running out, producers not getting it, a pandemic, and a long quiet stretch finishing it alone in 2023, to finally arrive after releasing a bunch of other EP's & singles along the way. Now it's here. Ten tracks of Soul, RnB, Neo Soul, Pop rooted in the lineage of Sade, Erykah Badu, Jamiroquai and Amy Winehouse,

socially conscious collabs

There’s no big overarching message

The album was recorded and mixed to tape on one of the last Neve analogue consoles (as mythologised in the Sound City documentary) to operate in Australia’s golden era of sound engineering

moving parts around

adapts an eclectic collection of the film’s most memorable songs

Jungaji has undergone a deep cultural transformation and found a profound understanding of his identity and is dedicated to sharing his western songlines and artistic testimony with the world

it’s an immersive experience

With "Visions"

but our community and the environment as well

Kim Coletta all of the above

Australian indie pop artist Phebe Starr’s sophomore album

at times the songs are paired back to enable them to come to the fore