Australian songwriter Angie McMahon is gearing up to release her Piano Salt EP on October 2. We asked her the BIG questions . . .
The new EP is a stripped-down companion piece to her 2019 debut album Salt and includes her renditions of The River by Bruce Springsteen and Born to Die by Lana Del Rey.
McMahon will also present a solo piano concert on October 7, which will be available for 24 hours from 12pm on the day, wherever you are in the world. Tickets on sale now via Ticketmaster.
Tell us three things about yourself?
Ah ok! I guess these things will be lockdown themed.
I feel centred on the days when I write and find some kind of meditation, and I feel chaotic on the days when I don't
I’m attempting to perfect a lentil Bolognese recipe
I am addicted to falling asleep with a hot water bottle
How would you describe your music?
Melancholy moderate rock musings
Who are your musical inspirations?
kd lang and Bruce Springsteen are my two big ones, and Joni Mitchell, Big Thief, Lianne La Havas, Angel Olsen, Fleetwood Mac, and plenty more . . .
How did you occupy yourself during the coronavirus lockdown?
It’s had lots of different chapters which are all kind of bled together now, but I’ve done some writing, painting, reading, body things like yoga or running, cooking meals, playing card games and Catan with my housemates, making music when it feels right, watching new TV shows.
What’s your favourite song right now?
Oh no this doesn’t feel real because by the time this is printed it will probably have changed! I think right now it is Anything by Adrianne Lenker. She just released it and I have it on repeat.
Favourite lyric of all time?
Again, always changing . . . This lyric in Emmylou Harris’s The Road is one of my favourites though:
"Down here under heaven, there never was a chart
to guide our way across this crooked highway of the heart
and if it’s only all about the journey in the end
on that road, I’m glad I came to know you, my old friend"
If you could only listen to one song for the rest of your life what would it be?
If it was just going to be playing for the rest of my life non-stop it’d probably be like a YouTube meditation track, otherwise I’d melt down into a puddle. But if I just got to press play whenever I wanted to hear a song, it’d either by Badlands by Bruce Springsteen, or Sister by Angel Olsen.
Where can people find your music/more information?
Angie McMahon on Instagram
