Holly Throsby plays guitar, piano & sings. Bree van Reyk plays drums, accordion, glockenspiel & keyboard. Jens Birchall plays cello, bass & mandolin.
Sounds Like
*NEW ALBUM* A LOUD CALL LP Available July 12, 2008
ONE OF YOU FOR ME EP
[2007]
UNDER THE TOWN LP
[2006]
ON NIGHT LP [2004]
"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
Holly Throsby is from Sydney, Australia. Her first album, On Night (2004), was recorded in a tiny house 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 Dupe. He lives in the house and produced both the albums.)
This year Holly releases 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 in the Kangaroo Valley in Australia. Holly is accompanied on the album by her long-time band - 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 Bonnie 'Prince' Billy, Joanna Newsom, Bill Callahan, Mark Kozelek, M. Ward, Devendra Banhart and Low. She also likes to sing duets and she has done so with, among others, Sarah Blasko, Glen Hansard (The Frames), Jack Ladder, New Buffalo, Hayden and Andrew Bird.
In 2006 Holly was nominated for an ARIA award for Best Female Artist here in Australia but, you know, didn't win. Apart from music she is interested in 20th century literature, films about small towns, humour, naive art, and dogs.
A HEART DIVIDED video - co-directed by Yanni Kronenberg & Danielle Zorbas
MAKING A FIRE video - directed by Yanni Kronenberg
WE'RE GOOD PEOPLE BUT WHY DON'T WE SHOW IT? video - directed by Mike Daly
I started listening to both you and Bonnie Prince Billy in 2004 and now you have a duet together! It's poetry in motion baby! I'm so excited to hear the new album & the show at the Factory was hotcakes. Just stunning. xxx
hi holly, if you get the chance please come to geelong! i know you would get a decent crowd! The national hotel or g lounge would be pretty suitable venues i think.
if you do come along, it would be good to hear 'as the night dies', 'not the girl you think you are', 'the shoulders and bends'.
heard the new song on jjj today. lovely, gorgeous, smooth. like a hot chocolate on a cold day... nice for the soul and sweet. congratulations and hope it flies. As Zan Rowe said you get better with every album. xx
hey holly, i have been listening to under the town alot recently and just thought i'd drop by and say how much i enjoy the album everytime i listen to it :) you're a very talented musician, peace xo
Was there at your Factory show, right up front dead centre. The set was like liquid, really warm but still really tight, especially with that powerhouse in the middle. Great great work, hope to see y'all again soon. All the best for the album release too.
