Description
A consistently and sometimes subtly experimental record from the veteran singer and the funk/soul band.
Emma Donovan has been singing all her life, first in church with her grandparents and later in formative band The Donovans with her mother and several uncles. Growing up in New South Wales with a Gumbaynggirr/Dhangatti mother and a father of the Naaguja and Yamatji people, she has sung with everyone from Archie Roach to Paul Kelly.
She pours that accumulated experience into fronting Melbourne instrumental ensemble The Putbacks. As proven by 2020’s impressive album ‘Crossover’, which saw Donovan draw deeply on her layered roles as a mother, daughter and granddaughter, her raw-edged yet powerfully controlled singing is a natural fit with The Putbacks’ psych-tinged funk and soul. Released less than 11 months later, this third outing is more spontaneous in feel, sounding like an intuitiv intuitive group of collaborators reacting to each other in real time while experimenting at every step.
