There’s a little rumbling underground. A slight whisper in the wind. The sound of Australian folk music is slowly starting to emerge.
Some may call it by the ‘Angus and Julia’ effect, but something in the last month has seemingly shifted and the pluck by pluck, harmony by harmony, folk(ish) music is starting to carve a path in the Aussie music forest.
Most recent example to float from my speakers: Mebourne’s The Paper Kites. 100,000 views on Youtube and it seems that this has already (while I was seemingly staring off into the distance) gone beyond your standard folk(ish) audience. With good reason too. Their music is simply gorgeous.
‘Bloom’ is the key track here – a floating, occasionally swirling piece of Autumn dusk, with the sun setting gently behind some beautiful vocals and harmonies.
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