LENKA RETURNS WITH THE INFECTIOUSLY DELICIOUS POP JAM "SILHOUETTE"
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“Lenka’s gentle tone wraps snugly around folk electronic minimalism and flirts with far grander, sweeping pop… Blue skied optimism, fragments of world beat fun, all bouncy and upbeat, glossy and positive.”
ROLLING STONE, AUSTRALIA
China Tour Dates
Tuesday, August 29 - Fulang Live House, Beijing
Wednesday, August 30 - MaoLiveHouse, Guangzhou
Friday, September 1 - Chengdu SuperSite, Chengdu
Saturday, September 2 - The Bund31, Shanghai
Sunday, September 3 - We Space Live House, Shenzhen
US Tour Dates
Sunday, October 1 - City Winery, New York, NY
Sunday, October 8 - Resident, Los Angeles, CA
Australian Tour Dates
Friday, November 17 - The Gaso, Melbourne
Friday, November 24 - Valley Loft, Fortitude Valley Brisbane
Saturday, November 25 - Great Club, Sydney
All tickets are on sale now via lenkamusic.com/shows
Australian singer/songwriter Lenka has been busy behind the scenes launching the new contemporary art festival OpenField in the NSW town of Berry, as the program director and co-chair, writing, recording and releasing new music for her loyal local and international audiences with a successful run of performances in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Hong Kong back in April and May this year.
Following her single "One Moment," her first new music since 2020, featuring her captivating vocals alongside the beautiful voices of the Berry Public School choir, Lenka returns with her infectious sugary indie pop and a soulful '80s synth-inspired backdrop for "Silhouette" via her own label Skipalong Records. For many, Lenka's music is their therapy, and this year she will return to New York, Los Angeles, and China, and play intimate shows in Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney where they can bask in her whimsical optimistic lens.
Whether it is through her time with Decoder Ring or her career as a solo artist, touring the world, her songwriting is the lock and key to unpacking her own feelings, "Silhouette" further encompasses Lenka's openness to share, "This song is my delicious 1980’s pop jam about being worn down by life to the point where you feel like you're disappearing and becoming numb. Almost a nihilistic feeling, but in a joyful way! "It's fun to get creative with your more negative emotions and wear them like a costume, turn them into armour," she explains.
Written and recorded alongside engineer and multi-instrumentalist Josh Schuberth (Josh Pyke, Sara Storer, Ben Folds) and Dave Jenkins Jr on production in Eora (Sydney) and the soaring ridges and wilderness of Colomatta (Blue Mountains), "Silhouette" is a wonderland of nostalgia, accompanied by a visual steeped in a deciding retro aesthetic paying homage to styles across the '80s and '90s. Directed by Adam Jordan and filmed at Teel Studios in New South Wales, the video combines inspiration from icons such as Whitney Houston, Annie Lennox, Kylie Minogue, and more, with TV advertisement portrayals of women as femme fatale glamazons indulging in their sensuality from Lenka's childhood.
Known for her songs "The Show," "Trouble Is A Friend" and "Everything At Once," Lenka's music has been featured in movies such as Moneyball, Easy A, and Angus Thongs and Perfect Snogging, TV shows including Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy, and commercials for Microsoft, Coca Cola, and more, and collaborating with the likes of Sally Seltmann and founding member of The Avalanches Darren Seltmann. Capturing the hearts of her worldwide fanbase she has toured across Asia, Europe, and the US, including Strawberry Music Festival, Zhoushan Music Festival, Kunming Festival, Daydream Festival and Qingdao Phoenix Music Festival.
This August Lenka will bring her positive pop for more dates across China in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chengdu and Shanghai before heading back to the States in October shows at Resident in Los Angeles and New York's City Winery and then back to Australia for her homecoming at The Gasometer in Melbourne, Valley Loft in Brisbane and the Great Club in Sydney.
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