After huge reception for singles like Too High To Cry, Brisbane-based indie pop artist Austen is back with a soaring new track called Anthem, a poignant and powerful song about the continued confusion of an on-again-off-again relationship.
It's an actual anthem too, with brooding production a la Ellie Goulding, the emotional honesty of Lorde and a fresh voice all her own.
On the song, Austen tells us, "Humans are all so weird and we have to embrace it. I was in an on-again-off-again relationship, which was complicated and messed with my head a lot, where we would both be like, “we are so bad for each other” then just laugh and keep going around in circles. I wrote Anthem in one of the “off” phases knowing that ironically I’d probably end up showing this person in a week or two. It’s about that one relationship that everyone goes through where the running theme is messiness and you both know it will probably end messily too, but you keep going back and forth because you love them and it’s fun - and everyone is messy so why fight it?
"The production has these big ups and downs and some parts which feel a bit warped which mirrors that messiness and feeling of not quite knowing which way is up.”
We're gonna watch Austen with a keen eye this year as she gears up to drop a new EP and some more singles.
