Irish-born, Australian-based multi-instrumentalist Bonnie Stewart releases her second album of indie-rock-inspired song writing, “music that is both mellow and hazy and driven and edgy, traversing art-folk, psychedelia, dream-pop and grunge.”
With heavy thrums of detuned guitars entwined with layers of angelic airy vocals, the forthcoming new album “Strangest Feeling” shows Bonniesongs’ masterful ability to balance 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” is a collection of songs written amongst the limbo of the lockdowns and the transition back to life. A flavour of autumn runs through the album, intwined with themes of spells, the ocean and Halloween. The punky riffs and driving drums of new single ‘Olive Oil’ and the album’s second single ‘Bittersweet’ are reminders of fun and joy, with ‘Bittersweet’ offering a slice of unadulterated punky grunge in the playful ode to finding fun in chaos, inspired by Bonnie’s stay in New Zealand during the pandemic.
from the Bonniesongs upcoming album Strangest Feeling
The Fat Angel Sings 