Angie McMahon Announces Debut Album Salt, Shares New Single “And I Am a Woman”
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After making a name for herself in Australia, Angie McMahon is ready to take the U.S. by storm. Earlier this year, she took home SXSW’s coveted Grulke Prize (previously won by Courtney Barnett), and today she’s announcing her debut album with a new single.
“And I Am a Woman” is an arresting example of McMahon’s songwriting, steadily building from hushed murmurs and an austere guitar to impassioned wails and thicker instrumentation through a synthesized bridge.
While the instrumentation is certainly impressive, it’s McMahon’s voice that takes the track to another level; her growling timbre stabs and twists, levying its power with a lyrical tenderness that still bites. McMahon explains in a statement that the song is a plea for change in the overbearingly heteronormative and patriarchal society we live in: “There are all these things that our society teaches us about bodies, spaces, choices, feelings, safety, that we have to question and unlearn and do better with.”
On her album Salt, a press release promises “slow burns constantly on the brink of exploding in distortion,” which is just about all we needed to hear to be excited. The album is due out on July 26 via Dualtone Records, and you’ll find the tracklist and album art at the bottom of this page. McMahon’s also got some tour dates coming up, including a handful of dates in November in the States.
Listen to “And I Am a Woman” below, and feel free to revisit earlier single “Missing Me” here.
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