Local Roots

10 May 2019

Live Jam Session with Laura Imbruglia

Jam Session

LISTEN TO PODCAST NOW

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 38:48 — 35.5MB)

Subscribe or Follow Us: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | RSS

Laura Imbruglia joined Dinah & Sarah in the Local Roots studio for this week’s Jam Session.

Each week we bring in an independent artist to perform and share their music live in the studio just for you.

Australian songwriter Laura Imbruglia has been releasing records since the early noughties. A restless musician with broad music taste, she’s released three albums, played almost every corner of Australia and several pockets of Europe. Although Laura has been quiet on the music front for the past 5 years (momentarily distracted by the creation of her beloved arts web series “Amateur Hour”), she’s finally back in the land of music.

Following from 2013’s What A Treat and breaking a five-year radio silence, Scared of You delves deep into the mind and listening habits of Laura’s past few years, traversing realms of pub rock, brooding indie pop, classic country, shoegaze, grunge and even yacht rock. With such a broad stylistic scope, exemplified through the album’s three stand alone singles ‘Tricks’, ‘Diptych’,“The Creeps’ and now ‘Carry You Around’, Imbruglia has earned her stripes as one of Melbourne’s most exciting artists of today.

Beneath the gritty, shiny surface, Scared of You sees Laura at her most openly vulnerable yet. Produced by long-time collaborator Nick Huggins, the album gives insight into the joys, frustrations, trials, and tribulations of human interaction.

Tracks like ‘Give Boys Pink Toys’ and ‘You’re Shit’ push the album into politically charged heavy hitting territory, whilst subdued moments such as ‘Diptych’, ‘CBT’ and ‘Casual’ remain deeply grounded in self-reflection, and relationship mending. It’s 30 minutes of danceable, punchable, huggable catharsis that showcases the refined songwriting and chameleon like musicianship of an artist at the peak of a massive career.

“The album focuses on the constant shift between insecurity, comfort, confusion and restlessness that occurs in all corners of life, and investigates and unpacks human fallibility. It wasn’t all that fun to write these songs but it sure is fun to play them!” – Laura Imbruglia

Featuring a recently revitalised band lineup of Alex MacRae (Sons of Rico) on lead guitar, Kelly Dingeldei (Loobs) on bass & backing vocals, and James Trewenack (Glass Diamonds) on drums, Laura Imbruglia and her band have been garnering new and returning fans with an utterly impressive live show. The outfit supported Teenage Fanclub and The Saboteurs for sold out shows earlier this year, played to a huge crowd at Boogie Festival, and followed that with a massive national tour.

Want to premiere a track?

Get in touch with us! Please send all submissions to localroots@joy.org.au – we love getting new submissions and keen to hear your new track. We only play tracks that have been released within the last 4-6 weeks, so make sure it’s super new and hopefully we’ll give it a spin.

Join us on the socials

We’d love to know what you’re listening to right now, or what your thoughts are on the songs played on our show. Join us on Facebook and share your favourite tunes or follow our Spotify playlist – this playlist is updated weekly with the best new release Australian tunes!