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WOODES
shares new EP
KINGDOM COME
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Photo credit: Mads Colvin
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Today, Naarm/Melbourne-based artist Woodes unveils her new EP Kingdom Come, out now via Nettwerk Music Group.
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Across 2023, Woodes has teased Kingdom Come with ‘Forever After’, which was premiered by triple j, ‘Lifetime’, and ‘Magic’, with the EP arriving alongside its focus track and official video ‘Kingdom Come’. The track threads Woodes’ dynamic vocals through soft piano and a glitchy beat, climaxing on a soaring and rapturous horn-boosted and choir-backed bridge. In its Great Ocean Road-filmed music video directed by Nick Mckk – the final video in a series which complemented hikes through Warburton, the Dandenongs and The Grampians – the visual acts as a metaphor for the track’s origins.
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“It’s very personal. It goes through exactly what happened.” Woodes explains. “I was in a relationship I thought would go on forever. I had to recalibrate and find a place where I felt I could write about it to process it. I had to freefall for a bit and ended up staying with friends. In the relationship we were building a kingdom, and it fell down. So, for the video, we built hundreds of sandcastles on the beach and knocked them all down.”
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The track’s arrival alongside the EP release consolidates this search for meaning which informed the creation of Kingdom Come. During the Pandemic, her personal life flipped upside down. She found herself at the end of a long relationship, so she departed Melbourne for Brisbane where she collaborated in the studio with friend Danny Harley (The Kite String Tangle)
Speaking on the EP, Woodes shares; ‘This is a very pure version of me. I was making music with my friend, and I was completely independent. I knew I had to stand behind it with a ‘ride or die’ energy. I moved interstate for a bit, and that was very special too in that time. It felt great when I came out on the other side of everything.’
She continues; “I love when I find music that inspires me or becomes my own soundtrack. I hope I can write songs to accompany your soundtrack in life. If the music becomes part of your memories, there would be nothing better.”
While the need for healing on a personal level underpins the lyrics and themes of the EP, her deep relationship with nature informed the entire creative process – one which allowed her to rekindle her love for creating music in itself. Forgoing the elements which have guided previous projects – from highly-conceptual costuming and digital world-building – Kingdom Come allowed space for the process to be steered by the natural world and her circle of friends, who accompanied her throughout the filming of the EP’s music videos. It’s process has since been recognised in a nomination for the Environmental Music Prize.
Kingdom Come marks the fourth solo project for Woodes, following her self-titled debut EP in 2016, 2018’s Golden Hour EP, her debut album Crystal Ball in 2020, alongside a slew of singles and collaborative projects.
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About WOODES
Australian singer, songwriter Woodes crafts songs you can take with you on your journey. Over alternative pop soundscapes, she bottles emotion, nostalgia, longing, and hope in dynamic and dreamy anthems. After generating millions of streams and earning acclaim from the likes of NME, Complex, and many more, her cinematic approach flourishes on the 2023 Kingdom Come EP.
Woodes has consistently engaged, entranced, and enraptured listeners as a pop enigma. She made her presence known with the independent self-titled debut EP, Woodes, in 2016. She joined forces with Set Mo for the smash “I Belong Here,” which picked up a platinum certification in Australia. 2018’s Golden Hour EP dominated Triple J with “Dots” and “Run For It.” However, she leveled up again on Crystal Ball in 2020. It not only bowed at #3 on the Australian Independent Albums Chart, but NME rated it “4-out-of-5 stars” and hailed it as “a powerfully intimate record that tackles both life and fantasy with fierce resolve.” As a powerhouse performer, she graced the stages of Splendour in the Grass and SXSW in addition to touring with Thelma Plum, Asgier, and Sylvan Esso. In the end, what’s to come from Woodes this year is a pure and authentic soundtrack you can lean on.
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