Australian songwriter Asha Jefferies announces her new album, Desire Is An Angel, due out October 2 via Nettwerk, and shares brand new single and video, ‘Art of Suggestion’.
After releasing her debut album, Ego Ride, in 2024, Jefferies toured the UK, Europe and the US, and supported Courtney Barnett, Soccer Mommy, Hana Vu and Middle Kids. She returned to the UK to record Desire Is An Angel with producer Tom Iansek (Big Scary, #1 Dads). Co-produced by Jefferies and Iansek, the album is a showcase for Jefferies’ sophisticated indie rock and folk-pop songcraft. It’s both more sonically ambitious and more intimately personal than its predecessor.
On ‘Art of Suggestion’, one of the record’s most classic-sounding pop songs, Jefferies plays with the imaginative potential of desire. “I wrote Art of Suggestion about being swept away by the undertow of desire. Before confirmation is revealed and you know someone is interested in you, there is a heavy, electrifying drive to project your desires onto them. Daydreaming has taught me that sometimes, the exhilaration of seduction is less about contact and more about the unknown,” Jefferies explains.
The track arrives alongside a music video directed by Meg Siejka, shot on a farm in Victoria. Jefferies adds, “We wanted to play with the embodiment of desire through daydreaming. Desire can feel expansive and intoxicating in ordinary places – while cleaning your teeth, sitting by the pool on holiday or watering the garden. Filming this required a lot of changing out of wet jeans…”
Desire Is An Angel:
- Backwards Baby
- Art of Suggestion
- Lilo & Stitch
- Cool Guy
- Desire is
- An Angel
- Why Does Your Girl Look Like Me?
- Walrus
- What the Hell
- Leftovers
