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Global Beat Australia: Ragged punk covers and stirring Indigenous folk MORE This week’s Global Beat features the Australian sounds of Josh Pyke with Gordi, Jen Cloher and Hachiku, and Alice Skye. Photos by Jefferton James, Jess Gleason, Marcelle Bradbee and Triana Hernandez/Nick McKinlay.
KCRW’s Global Beat is a new series highlighting emerging artists from around the world. We’re kicking the series off with our friends in Australia by partnering with The Australian Music Alliance and the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project (Amrap), a uniquely Australian organization designed to support Australian music on public radio.
KCRW DJ Raul Campos hosts along with Amrap Manager Andrew Khedoori for this week’s Aussie artist spotlights on a haunting duet from Josh Pyke with Gordi, a Raincoats cover from indie scions Jen Cloher and Hachicku, and an Indigenous folk gut-punch from Alice Skye. Catch up on all the artists from the series (pl
‘I Feel Better, But I Don’t Feel Good’ is the second album from Naarm-based Wergaia / Wemba Wemba songwriter and artist, Alice Skye. It follows her 2018 debut Friends With Feelings , and sees Skye working with an expanded team of collaborators, including Jen Cloher and friends Sam and Kane King.
The record is filled with tender guitar-led gems and soaring rock ballads. Moments of introspection are matched by catharis, as on single Party Tricks , where Alice Skye confronts self-defeating cycles of behaviour.
Elsewhere lyrics explore the turbulence of our thoughts, alongside the challenges and consolations of friendship. Skye s insightful writing is moving, and humourous. Homesickness talks of complicated relationships with home, and Browser History reflects on what we reveal of ourselves in online searches.