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ANGIE McMAHON
out today:
ANGIE McMAHON’S
expansive new album
LIGHT, DARK, LIGHT AGAIN 

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Praise for LIGHT, DARK, LIGHT AGAIN

“Light, Dark, Light Again is a record of this moment, capturing something true about the time we live in and the way in which so many of us exist… an invitation to slow down, to listen, to observe, to accept, to exist among the madness of it all.”
– Giselle Au-Nhien Nguyen, The Guardian

“wild, luscious… where her debut documented a certain early-twenties messiness, Light, Dark, Light Again is a triumphant emergence from the wreckage”
– Lisa-Marie Ferla, UNCUT

“you can practically feel McMahon ascending.”
– David James Young, The Big Issue

“expansive and cinematic: harmonies ricochet atop thundering drums, guitars build into walls of sound, and Angie’s voice stretches powerfully outwards.” 
– Jules LeFevre, Sydney Morning Herald / The Age

“Like the late, great Sinead O’Connor, Angie McMahon’s voice is all that’s needed to create a mood… These are brutally honest songs about self-doubt, striving to stay positive and trying to find what works”
– Jeff Jenkins, STACK

“Light, Dark, Light Again is something special… an album of growth, confidence and acceptance. It will go down as one for the ages.”
– Dylan Marshall, The AU Review

“ferocity and raw energy… it’s more than understandable why the Naarm/Melbourne-based musician sold out two shows for her first live performances in a long time.”
– Shaun Colnan, The Music

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Naarm/Melbourne-based singer and musician ANGIE MCMAHON (she/her) today unveils her highly anticipated second album Light, Dark, Light Again. With acclaim from NPR, triple j, The Guardian, NYLON, Billboard, The Line of Best Fit, Spotify’s global EQUAL program and more than 4 million streams across its singles ‘Saturn Returning‘, ‘Letting Go‘, ‘Fireball Whiskey‘ and ‘Exploding‘, Light, Dark Light Again sees Angie McMahon step out from her shadows to present an expansive, cinematic universe that brings light to all the best and most challenging parts of herself. Light, Dark, Light Again is out everywhere now via AWAL – order digitally and on vinyl from Angie McMahon’s website and music retailers nationally.

A record about going to the darkest places inside yourself, facing your fears, and learning they can serve as a portal to something bigger, brighter and better, Angie McMahon comes undone then heals slowly and strangely on Light, Dark, Light Again. When she felt like her life had been falling apart, she slowed down with intention and started turning to nature: the murmurations of birds, the swaying of trees, movements in the sea, and realised there is much to be learned from the cycles of mother nature. The quiet but transformative revelations she had in this time have been poured into Light, Dark, Light Again, on which McMahon examines her relationship with self, and the journey to becoming okay with whoever she is, and whatever the future holds. “This is the space where everything is allowed to fall apart. Mother nature and her rhythms have been teaching me acceptance, that everything comes up to go down again,” McMahon shares.

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The album sees Angie McMahon excavate relationship breaks, accepting that all things eventually end (‘Fireball Whiskey’, ‘Fish’), acknowledge the fierce tentacles of depression (‘Staying Down Low’, ‘Black Eye’, ‘Serotonin’), and understand that moving forward comes from first feeling broken and at rock bottom (‘Divine Fault Line’ – co-written with Emma Louise). ‘Music’s Coming In’ – which features a choir of Naarm/Melbourne-based musicians including Ruby Gill, Hannah McKittrick and Olivia Hally – is a gentle encouragement to keep making art during periods of crushing self doubt. ‘Exploding’ is McMahon’s pledge to step into the bravest version of herself, and call-to-arms ‘I Am Already Enough’ – co-written with Meg Duffy of Hand Habits – encourages a rebellion against the pervasive societal idea fuelled by marketing machines that we are not good enough as we are. The rumbling of our angry planet while we continue to ignore her is reflected in climate protest song ‘Mother Nature’. The song became a receptacle for a lot of emotions and intensity, as Angie McMahon used it to process how overwhelmed she feels by the immense magnitude of the climate crisis.

The quiet poetry of McMahon’s lyrics across Light, Dark, Light Again will serve as a buoy to anyone facing their own fear, empowering and encouraging them to harness it as they move forward.

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Light, Dark, Light Again was recorded slowly and purposefully across a year between Angie McMahon’s home city of Naarm/Melbourne with Alex O’Gorman and Bonnie Knight, and the North Carolina town of Durham. In the latter – where the majority of the album’s tracks came together – McMahon worked alongside esteemed Grammy-nominated producer and songwriter Brad Cook (Bon Iver, Waxahatchee, Snail Mail) and her studio band – Bon Iver drummer Matt McCaughan, Canadian singer-songwriter Leif Vollebekk and Megafaun musician Phil Cook. The chance to travel abroad and collaborate with artists whose work she so admires felt like a dream come true for McMahon. She also found being free from a set timeline, able to go slow and trust the timing of the universe was a liberator – getting to take her songs across the world and create with friends new and old helped make them more expansive, more real and more resonant.

Angie McMahon first entered the cultural consciousness with her breakthrough 2017 indie-rock classic ‘Slow Mover’ and in 2019 released her debut album Salt, a record that would go on to cement her as a globally recognised artist. Bringing a deeply emotive approach to her music with ethereal notes in the vein of Angel Olsen and Florence and the Machine, and an explosive live show reminiscent of Big Thief and The War on Drugs, Angie McMahon has become renowned for her truthful storytelling that speaks to the unpolished and messy experiences of life. She has toured the US supporting Hozier, performed at Dot To Dot (UK), Best Kept Secret (NL), Splendour In The Grass and Groovin’ The Moo festivals and shows with Julia Jacklin, Mumford and Sons, Angus and Julia Stone and more.

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Angie McMahon – Light, Dark, Light Again
album out today (AWAL)
Stream / order vinyl

LIGHT, DARK, LIGHT AGAIN
Track List

Saturn Returning
Fireball Whiskey
Fish
Letting Go
Divine Fault Line
Mother Nature
Black Eye
Exploding
I Am Already Enough
Serotonin
Staying Down Low
Music’s Coming In
Making It Through

TOUR DATES

Sat 3 Feb – Laneway Festival – Meanjin/Brisbane
Sun 4 Feb – Laneway Festival – Eora/Sydney
Fri 9 Feb – Laneway Festival – Kaurna Land/Adelaide
Sat 10 Feb – Laneway Festival – Naarm/Melbourne
Mon 11 Feb – Laneway Festival – Whadjuk Boodjar/Perth
Mon 11 Mar – Madame Lou’s – Duwamish Land/Seattle
Tue 12 Mar – Star Theater – Multonomah Land/Portland
Thur 14 Mar – The Chapel – Ohlone Land/San Francisco
Fri 15 Mar – The Troubador – Tongva Land/Los Angeles
Mon 18 Mar – The Atlantis – Nacotchtank/Washington D.C.
Wed 20 Mar – Bowery Ballroom – Lenapehoking/New York City
Thur 21 Mar – Music Hall of Williamsberg – Lenapehoking/Brooklyn
Sat 23 Mar – World Cafe Live – Lenapehoking/Philadelphia
Mon 25 Mar – Bar Le Ritz – Tiohtià:ke/Montreal
Tue 26 Mar – The Sinclair – Massachusett Land/Boston

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Follow ANGIE MCMAHON
Website – Instagram – Facebook – Spotify
Twitter – Apple music

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