Hannah Cameron – The Wrong Way: 13th Floor New Song Of The Day

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Naarm/Melbourne-based guitarist and singer HANNAH CAMERON (she/her) today shares her new single ‘The Wrong Way’, a light-footed, winding track about having difficult conversations with difficult people.

Here’s the blurb with details:

Hannah CAmeronTogether with singles ‘Smells Like Leaving’, ‘Take The Blame’ and earlier release ‘Backsliding’, ‘The Wrong Way’ is lifted from Hannah Cameron’s forthcoming album Holding Pattern (out Sept 22), on which she explores feelings of moving beyond stasis across 10 expertly crafted tracks. ‘The Wrong Way’ is available everywhere now, stream HERE.

Hannah Cameron is performing at Bigsound for the first time next week with showcases at Soapbox (Tues 5) and Stranded Bar (Wed 6) – full details below.

Described by Hannah Cameron as “five years of therapy in song form”, ‘The Wrong Way’ is a mantra for the conflict averse and an anthem for anyone who knows the frustration of trying to reach someone who cannot be reached. With lyrics lifted from a journal entry and set to an upbeat bass line (Luke Hodgson), the heaviness of the subject matter is juxtaposed against the lively energy of the track’s production (Matt Redlich) – featuring peppy, Ringo-esque drums/percussion (Leigh Fisher), chiming guitars (Cameron), and honky, driving saxophone (Julian Banks). Of the track, Hannah Cameron says “I wrote ‘The Wrong Way’ as a reminder to myself that I can’t always be the one to make a situation feel right or resolved. It’s about realising that some conversations are never going to go the way that we want them to go and that some people are not worthy of that emotional labour.”

Hannah Cameron’s forthcoming third album Holding Pattern traces a flight path over her recent life, inviting us to listen as she examines her recurring tendency to wait for someone else to lead the way forward: out of a relationship, out of lockdown, back to herself. It’s the idea of stasis – stuck in-between action and apathy – that Holding Pattern so bravely and eloquently explores. Whether it’s feeling frustrated by small talk and craving emotional intimacy (‘Nothing But Time’, ‘Other People’s Problems’), bringing lightness and humour to existential dread and unspoken conversations (‘Repeat’, ‘The Wrong Way’), or celebrating the good in a relationship that didn’t work out (‘Haiku Song’), Cameron walks and tumbles and stands up strong again as she questions the role she plays in cycles of behaviour that no longer serve her.

Holding Pattern was written over three years under the watchful eye of producer Matt Redlich (Emma Louise, Ball Park Music) and recorded between Woodstock Studios in Naarm/Melbourne’s south side and Redlich’s Abbotsford studio. A sonic departure from her previous work, the album was written largely on Cameron’s beloved baritone guitar and the bulk of the record was tracked live with longtime bandmates Leigh Fisher (drums) and Luke Hodgson (bass). Many of the songs were born from limitation – imposing restrictions around the lyrical, rhythmic and harmonic content as a means of accessing greater creative freedom within those set parameters. It might sound counterintuitive, but it was these guardrails that created the space for Holding Pattern to become Hannah Cameron’s richest, most expansive body of work yet.

Hannah Cameron is renowned for her ability to knock the wind out of you with her muscular guitar and a voice that could melt tar. There’s an unwavering strength to her poetry, and an effortless complexity to her craft. And control – of her soaring voice, her deft guitar lines and her powerful narratives – is a thread that runs deep. Hannah is also quietly one of the industry’s most in-demand performers, touring and playing with The Paper Kites, Missy Higgins, Grand Salvo, On Diamond, Mimi Gilbert and more. Hannah Cameron has released two albums, I Lay Where You Lie (2018) and Blow My House Down (2015), together with singles ‘Take The Blame’ and ‘Smells Like Leaving’ has seen airplay, support and praise from the likes of Double J, Triple R, PBS, The AU Review, Pilerats, MTV Australia and many others.

Hannah Cameron – Holding Pattern
Out September 22, 2023
Pre-save | Pre-order (Bandcamp)

Hannah Cameron

TRACKLIST
Take The Blame
Backsliding
Haiku Song
Smells Like Leaving
Other People’s Problems
The Wrong Way
Repeat
Palace/Prison
Nothing But Time
All I Know For Sure

TOUR DATES
Friday 1 September – Thornbury Theatre w/Songs From The Canyon – Naarm/Melbourne
Saturday 2 September – National Theatre w/Songs From The Canyon – Naarm/Melbourne
Tuesday 5 September – BIGSOUND @ Soapbox Beer (8:15pm-8:45pm) – Meanjin/Brisbane
Wednesday 6 September – BIGSOUND @ Stranded Bar (10:30pm-11:00pm) – Meanjin/Brisbane
Friday 8 September – Princess Theatre w/Songs From The Canyon – Meanjin/Brisbane
Saturday 20 April – The Palais Theatre  w/ Songs From The Canyon – Naarm/Melbourne

Connect with Hannah Cameron
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Merch · hannahcameron.net

 

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