Bonniesongs, aka Irish-born, Australian-based multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Bonnie Stewart announces her second album Strangest Feeling (releasing on 25 July via Impressed Recordings) and shares the playful album teaser ‘Olive Oil.’
“I wrote ‘Olive Oil’ while visiting Wellington, New Zealand. I had recently started a game with friends where we list our top 5 favourite things,” she says. “Olive oil, ocean, sunshine are some things that bring me joy. I wanted a happy, light-hearted song.”
‘Olive Oil’ has a playfulness that recalls 90s Americana indie such as Pavement, with the song’s prominent drums inspired by Deerhunter’s track ‘Never Stops’. It is a good taster for the album, with heavy thrums of detuned guitars entwined with layers of angelic airy vocals, Strangest Feeling is a masterclass in balancing sound and silence, reminding us that music, at its core, is simple vibration moving through air. Bonniesongs makes music that is both mellow and hazy and driven and edgy, traversing art-folk, psychedelia, dream-pop and grunge. She could also be compared to art-rock and alternative artists such as PJ Harvey, Feist and Grouper for her music’s raw, hypnotic qualities, although Bonniesongs’ style sits more in a ‘ethereal grunge’ category of its own, one she’s been carving out since her 2019’s debut album Energetic Mind (Small Pond/Art As Catharsis). Once described by artist Fink, who championed Bonniesongs heavily on his KCRW radio show and toured Australia with her early this year as having “a deceptively hard edged soft-core.”
Strangest Feeling:
- Dragon
- Strangest Feeling
- Bittersweet
- Stay Fun
- Olive Oil
- Take Off
- Halloween Birthday
- Whipping Bird
- Weightless
- Keeper
