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GRETTA ZILLER
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new single and video
STOCKHOLM
Announces
second album
JUDAS TREE
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GRETTA ZILLER
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Singer songwriter Gretta Ziller has today released her new supercharged single, guitar-pop entry Stockholm, a standout with its storm of keys and buzzsaw guitars.
Gretta explains, “Stockholm is a song about that relationship you have in your life where you find yourself needing and hating that person. You feel like you’ve developed Stockholm syndrome, it’s a corrosive codependency.”
The accompanying video was written and directed by Arlo Dean Cook, who also produced the video for Gretta’s first single Unlikely Believer and has worked recently with Bob Evans. It was shot by Arlo Dean Cook and Stephen Packer in Moorabbin, Vic.
Her forthcoming second album Judas Tree finds Ziller ranging far and wide over the sonic landscape, pushing her uniquely expressive voice, kaleidoscopic sound, and deft songwriting skills to dizzying new heights.
“I’m a trained vocalist, and with this album, I wanted to prove that,” Ziller says.
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Gretta Ziller’s critically-lauded debut album Queen of Boomtown (2017) was long-listed for the Australian Music Prize, and was nominated for The Age Music Victoria Awards. Ziller has been an APRA Professional Development finalist, garnered two Golden Guitar nominations, and has performed at Australian Music Week.
An exhilarating departure from the softer Americana poise of Queen of Boomtown, Judas Tree deploys richly layered guitar-driven sounds, building on Ziller’s roots in blues, rock, jazz, and pop.
The result is an album that draws from many wellsprings: desert rock, psych, power pop, and more, capturing the sounds of inspirations from Rag’n’Bone Man to Bishop Briggs. The result is an 11-track songbook that frequently defies categorisation.
“I’m not turtley enough for the turtle club,” Ziller jokes of her stylistic allegiances. “I come from country roots: I’m proud of the fact that I write like a country writer, because country songwriters are fantastic. But my sound isn’t country. I wanted to explore the foundation of me, while keeping my country songwriter’s influence.”
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Judas Tree was produced by the in-demand Paul Ruske, with engineering by Richard Stolz (Tones & I, Tash Sultana, Paul Kelly, Husky) and Richard Dodd (Tom Petty, George Harrison, Roy Orbison). Also featured is Americana peer Jen Mize on backing vocals and cello.
A study in songwriting mastery, incomparable vocal power, and stylistic expansion, Judas Tree is an unmissable monument to invention, re-invention, and vision.
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