Sarah Belkner Reveals Enticing New Single "Animals"
Beloved Sarah Belkner returns to 2019 with her jungle tinged, alternate-pop single of savage beauty, “Animals”.
Sarah explores full-blown primal love being taken on by the practicalities of life, featuring her signature melting vocals that carry ethereally over an addictive beat. Developing her lyrics first, Sarah explains how her new songs were curated mainly on long-haul flights, in tour vans and hotel rooms;
“They came from moving, thinking, writing and capturing all the insights and musings along the way, observing many different creatives (and creativity in general) and then realising in more universal terms that creativity means ‘passion’. Finding it, working with it and trying to nurture and hold onto it.”
A remarkable and persistent musical beast; there is nothing about Sarah Belkner’s career that ticks any sort of industry ‘how to’ boxes, and yet as she approaches her second album we see an innovative creative, building her very own little localised musical empire brick-by-brick.
Belkner has been in hot demand throughout her career for her vocal ability and skills as a keyboardist, arranger, producer, writer and touring musician playing with Australian national treasures including Sarah Blasko, OLYMPIA, Missy Higgins, Abby Dobson, Brendan Maclean, and most recently the enigmatic Tim Minchin.
Her debut album ‘But You Are, But It Has’ was Double J album of the week in 2017, finding it’s way into the hearts of fans and critics for its subtle quirk and shimmering arrangements. At the heart of everything is, most notably, her voice; a voice that is simultaneously soothing and powerful, coupled with existential lyrics, musicality, and passion for the musical process.
Sarah has been in the producer's seat for many local artists including Julia Johnson, Jack Colwell and Rosie Catalano. She recently produced and co-wrote her first full length album for artist Brendan Maclean’s ‘chic & bleak’, and the emotionally charged dance record ‘And The Boyfriends’ which hit #2 on the Australian iTunes chart and #9 on the AIR chart.
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