Brisbane, Australia primarily based indie-pop riser Asha Jefferies has unveiled her new single, ‘Hold My Shit Collectively’, following latest tour helps and reveals with acts together with Julia Jacklin, Stella Donnelly, Metropolis and Color, Lime Cordiale and Center Children.

Initially from the coastal area of Northern Rivers in Australia, however since raised and now firmly primarily based in Brisbane, Asha Jefferies is heartily celebrated for her glowing idiosyncratic sounds that lie between the indie folks preparations and melancholic pop songs of Angel Olsen & Large Thief and a way of enjoyable and optimism that may very well be filed alongside Sheryl Crow. 

Newly launched single, ‘Hold My Shit Collectively’, was produced and blended by Sam Cromack of broadly adored Brisbane band, Ball Park Music, in his cosy studio Prawn Information within the internal north of town.  Testing her personal bravery within the face of milestone-induced anxiousness (on this occasion, celebrating Christmas with a brand new companion) – “I get sentimental across the holidays” Jefferies proposes within the tune’s opening chorus, earlier than asking herself “Why do I keep within the metropolis? / With all these offended individuals” because the tune bounces between head-spinning indie-pop, demonstrating each assured humour and a way of gravitas.

Talking on the monitor’s creation and its lyrical inspiration, Asha Jefferies mentioned:

“Hold My Shit Collectively was written one sizzling and sweaty day round my piano in December. Whereas feeling caught and existential, this tune is an ode to bringing lightness to sizzling and heavy emotions round Christmas time. We recorded this in mid-December, air-con cranking and all in organised matching white tank tops.”

Asha Jefferies’ 2021 debut EP, ‘The Pinnacle’, launched her as an artist with limitless potential. The undertaking acquired in depth rotation throughout Triple J, Double J and Triple J Unearthed, with its comply with up single, ‘Tank Tops’, additionally being added to full rotation on Triple J – changing into a neighborhood queer anthem and one of 2022’s most celebrated native tracks.

With such a variety of affect and comparability, Jefferies’ songs are euphoric in additional methods than one, coming from probably the most weak depths of a younger girl studying to precise her queerness. Written in a time of super change, discovery and exploration, Asha notes the affect of acts together with Angel Olsen, Large Thief, The Beatles, Lucy Dacus, Father John Misty and Radiohead on her upcoming releases.

At the moment including the ending touches to her debut full size album, Jefferies is reflecting on honesty.

“When all the pieces builds up in my head, I create these narratives that spiral round issues that occurred, however they aren’t all the time the precise reality. I owe it to myself to be sincere with myself, so I all the time wish to come again into my physique, to see the fact of issues.”

To this point, Asha Jefferies has performed notable Australian competition slots at BIGSOUND, Icebreaker Competition, In opposition to The Grain, Bluesfest, Woodford Folks and Mullum Music Festivals. Asha has gained a Queensland Music Award, triple j Unearthed’s NIDA Competitors and has been a finalist for each the Vanda & Younger Songwriting Competitors and the Worldwide Songwriting Competitors (ISC).

Asha Jefferies‘ new single “Hold Me Shit Collectively” is out now by way of Nettwerk. Her debut full size undertaking is due for launch in 2024 coinciding with plans for her UK dwell debut.

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