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One Louder Entertainment Record Label Sony Music Australia Booking Agent AU: Michael Harrison - Harbour Agency US: John Bongiorno - Pinnacle Ent. Publishing Sony/ATV Music Publishing Press AU: Mariam Dib - Sony Music US: Jocelyn Lobei- Howlin' Wuelf Media International Management US: Western Front  | Fearless. That was the word that kept coming up when kate Miller-heidke was dreaming up her second album. Fun was another one. The fact that she even dared to dream while her 2007 debut Little Eve was still ringin loud and clear suggests a couple more F-words. Forward. And Fast.
She had a tough act to follow. After a trilogy of EPs from 04' to 06'- Telegram, Comikaze and Circular Breathing- little eve landed in the upper reaches of the ARIA charts and earned the singer a host of accolades. The album went Gold and clocked up four ARIA nominations. "We had no songs" she says of Curiouser's creation. "What we had was a huge burst of inpiration. We went into this album with a vision. We mapped out how we wanted it to sound; the aesthetic, the spirit of it. Experimental, hooky, dynamic... we wanted to exploit everything that's unique about my music" "We" includes Kate's partner in life and music, husband/guitarist/collaborator Keir Nuttall. Radiating a newfound sense of mutual certainty, Curiouser immediately struck a chord with fans and critics when it was released in October 2008. In addition to a swag of glowing reviews, the Gold-selling album earned itself another F-word: the First album of Miller-Heidke's to be certified Platinum and to go to #2 on the ARIA charts, and #1 on the iTunes chart. Ultimately, it's the wonderfully unselfconscious yet accomplished songwriting that takes both Curiouser and Miller-Heidke to the next level. It's the first time she's opened herself up to co-writing- here, working closely with Huttall- and the results are inspiring. "Songwriting was always too personal and i felt too self-conscious to collaborate" Kate says. "But after a certain point with Keir, I just lost my inhibitions. We got into a groove where we brought out the best in each other. These songs are better than anything we've written individually before" recording with Los Angeles producer Mickey Petralia (Beck, Peaches, Eels, Dandy Warhols), who had the right mix of humour, enthusiasm and weird old electronic stuff to offer the new tunes, Miller-heidke, Nuttall, bassist Ben McCarthy and drummer Steve Pope spent two months crafting Curiouser. With his strict 4pm to 4am shift (with no days off), Petralia's studio wizardry turned out to be the perfect galvanizing force for Miller-Heidke and Nuttall' carefully sculpted home demos. |
