KATE MILLER HEIDKE
releases
‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’
THE NEW SINGLE FROM HER FORTHCOMING
5th STUDIO ALBUM ‘CHILD IN REVERSE’
TO BE RELEASED OCTOBER 30 – PREORDER HERE NOW
LISTEN TO THE SINGLE HERE
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO HERE
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Kate Miller-Heidke today releases ‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’ – the fourth single to be released from her forthcoming 5th studio album ‘Child In Reverse’– to be released October 30.
“This song is about habits that often start unconsciously, and gradually begin to take over who you are. I wanted to write a dark mirror of From Little Things, Big Things Grow. The ever-present forces of gradualism are lying in wait, stalking, and they eventually get us all.” Say Kate of ‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’
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After being revealed as fan favourite, The Queen, on Australia’s ‘The Masked Singer’ last month, the internationally acclaimed Brisbane singer-songwriter today will release her 5th studio album Child In Reverse on October 30. It is her first pop album in six years and possibly her most pop album yet.
Produced and recorded in Melbourne by Evan Klar, Child In Reverse is 11 songs sculpted into 3- to 4-minute shots of love and fear, memory and empathy, rage and redemption. It’s an album of airborne melodies, sinuous grooves, brilliant textures and, as always, a little more gravity than her feather-light voice implies.
“I keep getting drawn back to pop music,” Kate says, despite recent triumphs in opera (The Rabbits), musical theatre (Muriel’s Wedding) and screen (The Divorce). “The minimalism, the economy… I find that incredibly rewarding and challenging. It’s like a quest to nail the perfect pop song. When it can be done, for me, as a listener, it’s my favourite music.”
The quest yielded its first treasures in the winter of 2019, when Kate broke from her comfort zone to work with a series of strangers on an APRA SongHubs writing weekend on the Gold Coast. “The thought of that has terrified me my whole life,” she says, but despite her fears about songs compromised and diluted by committee, she hit gold on day one with her production team producer Evan Klar and backing vocalist Hailey Collier.
The album title Child In Reverse is a lyric from one of the key tracks, an open-hearted song of resilience called Child of Divorce. “I realised when I looked back at all the songs that there was kind of a thread running through: it was about unlearning, unravelling of old habit and old thought patterns,” Kate says.
“After something like that,” says Kate, “everything matters less and anything seems possible.” As she sings in Child of Divorce, “I still believe in what we could become.”
Child In Reverse is out on October 30 through EMI Recorded Music Australia
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TRACKLISTING
Deluded
Simpatico (feat. Mallrat)
Born Lucky
Twelve Year Old Me
You Can’t Hurt Me Anymore
Little Roots, Little Shoots
Hectic Glitter
People Pleaser
A Quiet Voice
Child of Divorce
This Is Not Forever
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About KATE MILLER-HEIDKE
Kate Miller-Heidke is an award-winning singer-songwriter who traverses the worlds of contemporary pop, folk, musical theatre and opera.
She has released four studio albums including the top 5 albums O Vertigo!, Nightflight, and Curiouser, which reached double platinum sales and featured the multi-platinum hits ‘The Last Day On Earth’ and ‘Caught In The Crowd’.
Her work has been nominated for ARIAs in categories as diverse as Best Pop Release, Best Adult Contemporary Album, Best Classical Album, Best Cast Recording, Best Comedy Release and Best Australian Live Act.
Trained as a classical singer at the Queensland Conservatorium, Kate has performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and several roles for the English National Opera. Her debut opera as a composer, The Rabbits, won 4 Helpmann Awards including Best Score and Best New Australian Work.
With her collaborator Keir Nuttall, she has written the music and lyrics to Muriel’s Wedding: The Musical, which premiered at the Sydney Theatre Company and played throughout 2019 in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. It won five Helpmann Awards, including Best Original Score.
After competing at ‘Eurovision – Australia Decides’ on the Gold Coast in February, Kate was unanimously chosen by both the jury and public votes to become Australia’s representative at the 2019 Eurovision Song Contest. Kate’s heartfelt performance and the out-of-this world staging of her original song ‘Zero Gravity’ won her first place in her semi-final and a top ten placing at the Eurovision Grand Final in May 2019
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Child In Reverse is out on October 30 through EMI Recorded Music Australia
The album is available to pre-order on Kate’s Official Store alongside a new range of merch, including a limited edition coloured 7” vinyl single of ‘Zero Gravity’, available for the first time in a physical format.
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