Adelaide-based singer-songwriter Jen Lush first released as a solo artist in 2017. After appearances at festivals and venues in Australia she released ‘Let Loose The Beating Birds’, reaching #11 on Three D’s top 100+1 for 2021, as well as winning the ARBA Roots Album of the Year. Her adventurous, unique and intimate music has helped her to achieve a solid reputation in her home city.
Jen Lush has just released ‘Hum of the mettle’, an album built from contemporary Australian poetry and was commissioned for the Denmark Festival of Voice (WA). With the new project, although Jen is provided with a lyrical starting point through the poetry, she manages to expand on the words to create something far greater. The project is atmospheric, dynamic and idyllic, with the versatility of the instrumentation ranging from glittery ballads to poignant acoustic tracks that all feel like a natural progression. From start to finish, Jen keeps the project cohesive with her steadfast and mighty vocal performances, adapting her singing to serve each moment to full effect.
Lush explains, “This record came out of a commissioned project to create new songs around contemporary Australian poetry. It features the words of five of Australia’s leading published poets and crosses through the urban and desert terrain of South Australia, Victoria and Western Australia with poems that speak of love and desolation, loss and memory, the resilience of the country and the stories held within it.
I want to share the poetry that roared, bled, whispered and sang into my skin and caused me to sing it back. As a collection they form a dynamic range from epic 70’s rock soundscapes, sudden storms of explosive pop, driving indie folk-rock and whispering, sparse ballads that build to cathartic crescendos. The band blends vocals stark and spacious over sonorous acoustic and electric guitars, keys, bass, drums and percussion, with storytelling always at the centre.”
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