Okay, we’re already quite smitten with this new one by Melbourne’s Ali Barter and, as it happens, it’s only the first glimpse of her just-announced debut album.
Having just premiered ‘Cigarette’ on triple j Drive, Ali told the show about the track, and revealed details of a debut LP titled A Suitable Girl.
“It’s the beginning, it’s like the frustration,” she told Veronica and Lewis of the new single. “There’s a [couple] and they’re having this relationship and in love. Then the first thing happens and someone gets pissed off and then it leads to the big fight. So it’s kind of like a third of the way in, it’s when trouble’s brewing.”
Having released several shorter record to date, but no full-length record, the longer format has allowed her to open up a little more – or perhaps it’s the opening up that allowed for more songs?
“I just wanted to be really honest about my feelings,” she told the hosts of the record, produced by Holy Holy’s Oscar Dawson. “I’ve done three EPs and I found the more that I did – produced things, explained things, covered things in metaphor – I didn’t feel I was saying things that are true to me. So with this album… I wanted it to be really natural and authentic.”
Ali detailed more of the record’s inspirations and writing process in the full interview, which you can listen to here, and you can check out the new lyric video below. The whole record will be out for our listening pleasure on March 24 via Ronnie Records/Inertia.
If you’d like to hear this one live, and maybe a few glimpses of the rest of the record, you can catch Ali playing for free this Sunday at the NGV Summer Series kicking off at Melbourne’s National Gallery of Victoria.
