Sarah Mary Chadwick Shares “Someone Else's Baby” Video | LP out Friday on Kill Rock Stars

Sarah Mary Chadwick Shares Brand New Single, “Someone Else's Baby” Messages To God LP Due Out This Friday on Kill Rock Stars Messages To God pre-order Singles: “Shitty Town” “Looked Just Like Jesus”  “Drinkin' on a Tuesday” “Someone Else's Baby” “ …like the missing link between PJ Harvey and Daniel Johnston” - Rolling Stone  "'Shitty Town' is a howling barroom anthem for nihilists and unrepentant fuck-ups" - Pitchfork "The depth of feeling in the song is only made more powerful via Chadwick’s quavering vocal delivery" - Paste "it’s songs like Shitty Town that make you hope she’ll continue on this path forever – few other  singer-songwriters currently working can write with such gut-wrenching clarity." - The Guardian "Flute flits throughout Sarah Mary Chadwick’s new single ‘Drinkin’ on a Tuesday’” - BrooklynVegan "one-of-a-kind, sparsely accompanied baroque-pop ballads that have maintained a certain disaffected  introspection" - FLOOD

Credit: Sian Stacey | New Zealand born, Melbourne based multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, vocalist and visual artist Sarah Mary Chadwick will release her eighth studio record Messages to God this Friday, September 15 via Kill Rock Stars. Executive produced by Tony Espie (The Avalanches), the album has earned acclaim spanning Pitchfork, PASTE, BrooklynVegan, Exclaim!, Women That Rock, FLOOD, The Guardian and more. The new collection is composed of broad, brightly coloured spiritual strokes and consists of dramatic retellings of having your heart broken, existing, movement and growth. All of this is reflected in the final album preview single “Someone Else's Baby” out today. The new song depicts hysteric desire at its finest – the ever-shifting goal post of wanting what you don’t have, always creating psychic debt. Chadwick shares, “Sometimes someone else’s baby is just better than your own. This feeling tends to correlate with having an absolutely chaotic life, so as an avoidance technique, it’s fantastic!" Listen / Share “Someone Else’s Baby” Chadwick is a gifted and singular songwriter, uniquely attuned to the minutiae of human emotion, not unlike Phil Eleverum’s work as Mount Eerie and Daniel Johnston’s adventures on tape. A multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, Chadwick’s songs are unsparing, brutal, and absolutely lovely. A prolific visual artist alongside her songwriting, Chadwick’s cover art of this record mirrors the slight alteration in tone; whereas previously, self-portraits of herself alone fronted her releases, now she has pictured herself amongst a group around a piano. Still not looking at peace, but surrounded by people, nonetheless. Messages to God is a beautifully realized record. It’s not happy but it is funny and optimistic. It is melodramatic, self-serving and generous. Sometimes, from way back in the shitty seats of the theater, you’re at your closest to god. That’s what this record is like, finding beauty in everyday occurrences. Because it’s there. You just gotta look really hard sometimes. And as Chadwick provides, “Because every day’s just one more day / trying to write messages to god’’.

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