KATE MILLER HEIDKE
releases new album
‘CHILD IN REVERSE’
LISTEN HERE NOW
WATCH THE LYRIC VIDEO FOR ‘SIMPATICO’ FEATURING MALLRAT HERE
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Kate Miller-Heidke.
Fri 20 Nov, The Fortitude Music Hall.
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“… subversive and sublime pop album. The precision here is incredible…” – 4 STARS – THE HERALD SUN
After being revealed as fan favourite, The Queen, on Australia’s ‘The Masked Singer’ last month, Brisbane singer-songwriter Kate Miller-Heidke today releases her first pop album in six years and possibly her most pop album yet, Child In Reverse. Listen/Download the album here.
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, “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.”
Child In Reverse has so far revealed stunning tracks such as ‘This Is Not Forever’, ‘Deluded’, ‘A Quiet Voice’ and ‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’. Alongside the album release today Kate also shares the lyric video for ‘Simpatico’ – a song that reflects on an unravelling friendship and was recorded as a percussive duet with fellow Brisbane emigre Mallrat, who happened to be recording at Fall Back Studios in Melbourne.
Says Kate Miller-Heidke of the song and collaboration with Mallrat: “This is a song about an important friendship that has faded away over time, and the conflicting feelings that come from that. Should I let it die? Why am I still lurking on her Facebook profile? There’s something really intimate about close female friendship; this almost came out like a lost love song. Mallrat was working in the studio downstairs and we sometimes had lunch all together. One day I got up the courage to ask her if she’d be up for singing this with me as a duet. She said yes straight away and brought so much heart and style to the song.”
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Kate Miller-Heidke also announces her return to her hometown of Brisbane, and her first live gigs in what seems like several very long decades. The first show will take place on November 20 at the Fortitude Music Hall, and virtually sold out within minutes. Due to overwhelming demand a second show has been added for November 24 with tickets available HERE
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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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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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