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LEAH SENIOR
announces first Australian
tour in five years
+ Shares new single
‘WHERE AM I NOW?’
New album
THE MUSIC THAT I MAKE
out August 18
Stream ‘Where Am I Now?’
Pre-order The Music That I Make
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Photo – Jamie Wdziekonski
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Praise for LEAH SENIOR
“enamoring and whimsical” – Earmilk
“a wonderful record that has been thought about in high detail and executed with an immaculate, artistic sensibility from start to finish.” – Beat Magazine
“It’s hard not to be moved” – The Music
“The hauntingly draft and raw tracks and their arrangements are where Senior shows her majesty and discipline as a folk artist.” – AAA Backstage
“Senior’s voice remains the magnetic draw, and she uses it well to form an album that’s drawing her out as an artist to keep tabs on.” – Raven Sings The Blues
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Australian-based folk diviner LEAH SENIOR today announces her first Australian tour in five years, The Music That I Make album tour, that will see her play seven shows across VIC, QLD, NSW and the ACT plus a slot at Winter Sounds this August and September (full dates below), with further shows to be announced. Leah Senior also shares her new single ‘Where Am I Now?’, an introspective song that questions the complex relationship she has to her creative practice. ‘Where Am I Now?’ is taken from Leah Senior’s new album The Music That I Make (out August 18 / Poison City Records), and is out everywhere now, stream HERE.
Some days I look into the mirror and see no reflection
and so I find myself in song, it gives me direction
Lyrically cutting and introspective, ‘Where Am I Now?’ is late night piano balladry wandering into psych territory with a sensitive rhythm section, glassy harmonies and wiry guitar lines. On the single, Leah Senior shares, “This song was written at a time when I felt as though I was spinning out, feeling like I was losing my grip on reality. It’s about the complex relationship that I have with my creative practice. I find my way back to myself through writing and playing but at the same time some days I feel as though I am a slave to it, my self worth totally wrapped up in what I make.”
Cycling through vulnerable meditations on what it means to create, The Music That I Make shows Leah Senior at her most intimate, transporting listeners to her sandstone shack in Anglesea where old world folk meets late night AM radio. Across the album, she moves away from the springtime baroque pop featured on The Passing Scene (2020) and into deep hearted, masterful songwriting with her confessional lyrics and intimate vocals centre stage. It’s opener, also the album’s title track, could just as easily soundtrack a Saturday morning coffee at home as a late night melancholic moment; ‘Clearest View’ – her “cryptic hippie protest song” – showcases crystalline harmonies, while on ‘The Fig’ she recalls a friend who regretted giving her best years to pursuing a career in music. Calling in inspirations from The Bell Jar to poems by Emily Dickinson, Leah Senior muses on writing songs to show her the way back to herself (‘Where Am I Now?’), the redemptive nature of love (‘Greed Is A Cloud’), and how freeing our unconscious can be as simple as blurting things out quicker than you think (‘The Critic’).
Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity. Her unique style has attracted not only those in the folk world but the likes of many others including the infamous psych rockers King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard; her distinctive voice featuring as omnipresent narrator on numerous records as well as a collaboration with them re-writing and performing the soundtrack to cult-classic Suspiria in 2020. She recently released a beautiful cover of Grant McLennan’s ‘Easy Come, Easy Go’, and together with the first single from The Music That I Make, ‘Pony’, has seen additions, airplay and support from Double J (addition), Triple R (premiere), FBi Radio (B Rotation), PBS FM (Feature Sounds), The AU Review (Best Music), Music Feeds (Best Music), Pilerats (Best Videos) and more. Leah Senior has released three albums, The Passing Scene (2020), Pretty Faces (2017) and Summer’s On The Ground (2015).
TOUR DATES
Saturday 19 August – Winter Sounds – Dja Dja Wurrung/Clunes, VIC
(afternoon show supporting Watty Thompson)
Saturday 19 August – Northcote Social Club – Naarm/Melbourne, VIC
Saturday 26 August – Dart & Marlin – Gunditjmara/Warrnambool, VIC
Saturday 2 September – Major Tom’s – Taungurung/Kyneton, VIC
Saturday 9 September – Seasonal Fruit Festival – Meanjin/Brisbane, QLD
Friday 15 September – Bridge Hotel – Dja Dja Wurrung/Castlemaine, VIC
Friday 22 September – The Great Club – Eora/Sydney, NSW
Saturday 23 September – La La La’s – Dharawal/Wollongong, NSW
Sunday 24 September – Smith’s Alternative – Ngunnawal/Canberra, ACT
more dates to come…
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Leah Senior – Where Am I Now? (Single)
out today (Poison City Records)
Stream
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Leah Senior – The Music That I Make
out August 18, 2023 (Poison City Records)
Pre-order
TRACK LIST
The Music That I Make
Spring Studio
Pony
Clearest View
Where Am I Now?
Downpour
The Fig
The Critic
Greed Is A Cloud
Room
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