"Throsby's writing delights in the quotidian - her yielding, half-spoken vocals investing poetic distillations with an elusive profundity." **** MOJO
"Songs which feel like they have been constructed in the smallest and most solitary space. This is a sound of its own." **** ROLLING STONE
"Like I-Spy-With-My-Little-Eye set to music, or painting pictures with notes and quavers, Under The Town is a breath of fresh air. I guarantee – whatever your mood – that for half an hour at least you'll go to places you only dreamt of and wish you could stay there forever and a day." 8/10 DROWNED IN SOUND
“Throsby's carefully observed ideas and startling voice make the old feel new enough to make neck hairs stand on end, rapt.” THE NEW YORK SUN
"This is the kind of album you want to keep to yourself. Not because you don't think others would feel the same way, but because after you've lived with it for a while Under the Town feels as if it were made just for you." THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"Lyrics resonating with the economic precision of a poem. Beautiful, fragile... a real pleasure." THE AUSTRALIAN
"Throsby has taken her music to a whole new level...with elegantly structured, delightful (lyrical and musical) understatement"
****
THE SUNDAY TIMES (UK)
"Hear, hear!"
****
DAILY MIRROR (UK)
"Makes you want to lie back and look at the glowing stars."
**** THE AUSTRALIAN
"Engaging...enticing...infectious...evocative"
****
WEARS THE TROUSERS (UK)
"Superb lyricism and subtly rich, oaky instrumentation, effortlessly veering from bright folk pop to spare, almost ambient acoustic laments."
**** RAVE
"A Loud Call positively bellows from the highest point. It is simply outstanding."
**** THE HUB
"This album sounds like finely blown glass."
****
J MAG
"A series of tunes touching on love, death and memory. Despite the hushed tone of Throsby's voice, it's one you won't forget any time soon"
**** ADELAIDE ADVERTISER
"Tender, evocative, gently inquisitive"
8/10 SUN HERALD
"[Throsby's] intriguing, elliptical, cleverly-arranged songs carry some of the ambient hush of Low and the baleful longing of Bonnie 'Prince' Billy." UNCUT
"Gorgeous, beautiful, incredibly intimate songs. One of the Australian albums of the year so far." MELBOURNE MAGAZINE (THE AGE)
"Brighter, livelier, more stunningly vivid. Holly Throsby has blossomed." THE VINE
"A pleasure. This album will course through the veins of those who hear it." SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
"This record is stunning." DRUM MEDIA
"A Loud Call shimmers with hope, darkness and new levels of intimacy. The once reserved Throsby, who was seemingly afraid of her sheer talent, has blossomed." OYSTER MAGAZINE
"Throsby has produced some fine work in the past but this is her best by a long shot." BEAT
Holly Throsby is from Sydney, Australia. Her first album, On Night (2004), was recorded in a tiny cottage on Saddleback Mountain on the south coast of NSW. Her second album, Under the Town (2006), was recorded in the same house on the same mountain, but this time more people came up and they brought more instruments to play along with. (Many instruments were played by Tony Dupé. He lives in the house and produced both the albums.)
This year Holly released her third album, A Loud Call, which was mostly recorded in Nashville by Mark Nevers. Some other parts – strings and horns – were recorded by Tony Dupé in the Kangaroo Valley in Australia. Holly is accompanied on the album by her long-time band, The Hello Tigers (Bree van Reyk & Jens Birchall), and some very special guests including Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy and members of Lambchop and Silver Jews.
In the last few years Holly has toured Australia many times and has played on various tours in the UK, Europe, America and Canada. She has toured on her own, with her band, and in support of artists such as Joanna Newsom, Smog, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart, Paul Kelly, The Eels and Low. She also likes to sing duets and she has done so with, among others, Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Sarah Blasko, Glen Hansard (The Swell Season), Jack Ladder, New Buffalo, Hayden and Andrew Bird.
Holly has been nominated for two ARIA awards for Best Female Artist (in 2006 for Under the Town and in 2008 for A Loud Call) but, you know, didn't win. Apart from music she is interested in 20th century literature, political intrigue, humour, small towns, naive art and dogs.
HOLLY THROSBY FEAT. BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY - 'WOULD YOU?' video - directed by Mike Daly
MAKING A FIRE video - directed by Yanni Kronenberg
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