‘Hear Me’, the latest offering from Australian alt-folk artist Amy Pollock is a haunting, beautiful track strewn with a claustrophobic melancholy that leaves you simultaneously gasping both for air and for more of what she has to offer. It is a stunning, complex song with an equally enthralling yet unsettling video to accompany it. Amy has said that the piece is about finding yourself on a journey, whether that be a physical, mental, emotional or spiritual one, and needing to ‘resist the familiar and step out into the dark’. She acts it beautifully.
She has described her range of influences as eclectic, citing Pink Floyd, Matt Corby and City and Colour as being among them, but I can also hear fellow Australian Sophie Lowe and Ben Howard in there as well. Her music and artistic style is so personal that you can’t help but want to be drawn into the textural themes with her.
Amy Pollock’s first EP will be released independently early next year.
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