AU/NZ LEG OF WORLD TOUR STARTS NEXT WEEK
+ PERFORMING AT GLASTONBURY & FUJI ROCK
Story: Ralph Greco, Jr.
Naarm/Melbourne-based singer and musician Angie McMahon’s cover of “Reckless” by Australian Crawl is now available on all streaming services. The track is her most recent cover for triple j’s “Like A Version.” Stream/watch “Reckless” HERE.
Its release comes ahead of the AU/NZ leg of Angie McMahon’s “Making It Through” world tour, which starts next week in support of her new album Light, Dark, Light Again (out now via AWAL). The nearly sold-out tour includes three nights at the Forum—limited tickets remain for Kaurna/Adelaide, Eora/Sydney and Tāmaki Makaurau/Auckland, buy HERE.
Following the AU/NZ leg, Angie will head to the UK/EU for a string of sold out shows including three nights in London, a performance at the coveted Glastonbury Festival (who named “Letting Go” their Song of the Year), and then travels on to perform at Fuji Rock Festival in Japan in July.
For her second “Like A Version,” Angie brought her longstanding climate advocacy into the track with lyric changes across each verse, and worked in a line from Neil Young’s “After the Gold Rush” at the song’s peak.
Of the cover, Angie shared with triple j, “I first heard ‘Reckless’ on Gold104 when I was driving the car one day and I just loved singing along to it. I heard references to mother nature in the chorus, I don’t know if that’s what they originally wrote the song about but it got the cogs turning in my brain to spin it into a climate change song. I was – and am – thinking a lot about the emissions in Australia which are just insane. It creates a lot of fear for my generation and all the generations to come. So it felt really important to play the song in a way that is fun, but also trying to speak to a lot of the anxiety that we feel, and a lot of the anger that is happening.”
Released last October to widespread critical acclaim, Angie McMaho’ss second album Light, Dark, Light Again is about going to the darkest places inside yourself, facing your fears, and learning they can serve as a portal to something bigger and brighter. Angie comes undone then heals slowly and strangely across the record—after feeling like her life had been falling apart, she turned to nature, to murmurations of birds, the swaying of trees, movements in the sea. The quiet but transformative revelations she had about life in this time were poured into the 13 songs on the album on which she examines her relationship with self, and the journey to becoming okay with whoever she is, and whatever the future holds. The quiet poetry of Angie’s lyrics will serve as a buoy to anyone facing their own fear, empowering and encouraging them to go forward.
Angie McMahon first entered the cultural consciousness with her breakthrough 2017 indie-rock classic “Slow Mover” and in 2019 released her debut album Salt, a record that would go on to cement her as a globally recognised artist. Bringing a deeply emotive approach to her music with ethereal notes in the vein of Angel Olsen and Florence and the Machine, and an explosive live show reminiscent of Big Thief and The War on Drugs, Angie has become renowned for her truthful storytelling that speaks to the unpolished and messy experiences of life.
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Ralph Greco, Jr. is the devilishly clever nom de plume of professional writer/musician Ralph Greco who lives in the wilds of suburban New Jersey. He is also a podcast co-host, but as everyone has a podcast these days, this fact is of very little consequence.Ralph can be reached by writing ralphiedawriter@gmail.com
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