Sarah Mary Chadwick is amazing

australian singer, don't know much about her, new album on stiltbreeze, brief article in rolling stone australia, had some album before the new one, Roses Always Die, one on rice is nice....

http://rollingstoneaus.com/music/post/first-listen-sarah-mary-chadwick-roses-always-die/4512-page-1

https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/roses-always-die

very sparse, old organs and drum machines, singer songwriterish but loose and sad and raw in a way that really speaks to me, this is the song that really got under my skin:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF-fkPjj1J4

i dunno, in a lot of ways it's like a lot of stuff you could namecheck but there's something about her music/lyrics/delivery that seems special to me

this is so great, thank you.

"makin it work" lyrics just floor me, something ragged but also each word has impact

also tbh kinda captures my mood in the post-trump era

She's from New Zealand. 9 classic songs is definitely worth a listen. Visceral songs great cover art (hers).

oops sorry i saw her in australian rs and didn't read closely enough

will check out 9 classic songs, this was recommended to me by spotify and the song above really knocked me out

She's from New Zealand. 9 classic songs is definitely worth a listen. Visceral songs great cover art (hers).

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Ha, came to post the same thing - Wellington mainstay w/her band Batrider in the early aughts (before they moved to Melbourne, and she stayed). She's got a great Chris Knox cover - https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/track/one-fell-swoop

On Googling yeah I remember her from last year's Notable Album Covers thread. Hadn't actually listened to her before now - really enjoying the vibe.

Ugh sorry about the NZ/au thing I'm dumb
Anyway NZ makes a lot more sense too

she has amazzzing rich vein of varitey in her melancholy playing keyboards mostly these days but she used to do guitar this is one of the favourites and makes me feel all teary sometimes

https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/track/fools-like-me-2

Recommend her cover (and the original song) here.

http://hhhhappy.com/sarah-mary-chadwick-strips-back-the-shocking-pinks-classic-its-hard-to-breathe/

glorious new single!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MMsmRtadSw

Album's out in May.

Interview in the local rag:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/music/102641635/kiwi-musician-sarah-mary-chadwick-on-sad-songs-psychoanalysis-puppies-and-porn

Sugar Still Melts...is way too much to take in as an album, but all the individual songs are great.A little more variety in the arrangements and pace would do wonders; as it is, it blurs into one long rainy day. She's got one of the best voices going and I love her lyrics -- simple but piercing.

new song is so gorgeous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Rxt_ce5rE

sometimes there will be tears
i'll have good years and bad years
i'll have friends and have no friends
loves will start and loves will end

and if there is a god i'd like to thank them for my time
i have had fun no matter how it seems
and though today i'm losing i know tomorrow could be fine
i can't bear to let this end
there's no last line

I'm glad she has another one coming out so soon!

ILX leads me astray yet again. How anyone can tolerate more than five seconds of this person's singing voice is beyond me. Excruciating.

eat my balls

imagining SMC mournfully singing "eat my balls"

eating my balls

oh brother it's hard

another new one! thankfully the instrumentation is a little more active this time

https://sarahmarychadwick.bandcamp.com/album/please-daddy-2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vliRbY4tch0

good video, love that song. mary elizabeth ellis?!

missed this! great video

so....

yo god i had crazy visions

sarah mary chadwick covering "you don't know what you got (til it's gone) by cinderella

on a pipe organ (or organ or piano really would be fine)

but i feel like i can *hear* it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i28UEoLXVFQ

esp the

"now i know what i got
it's just this song
and it ain't easy to get back
takes so long"

i might cut the bridge tho, we can talk about that

New album on Kill Rock Stars!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrPmLPGEZNQ

(she was really great in 2020 playing The Queen Who Stole The Sky on the Auckland Town Hall pipe organ)