This week’s PBS Feature Album is Just My Luck from BATTS, the project of Naarm/Melbourne-based musician, Tanya Batt.
The recent release follows her AMP nominated sophomore album ‘The Nightline’ which was supported around the world by BBC 6 Music, NPR, Brooklyn Vegan, NME, Sterogum and other prominent outlets. Batt’s main focus for the third album was to fall in love with music again, to find the joy and playfulness in it all, something she felt she had lost through grief and the toxicities that exist in the industry.
Created alongside her longtime band members Lachlan O’Kane, Brendan Tsui, and Ross Beaton and recorded in the beautiful surrounds of rural Victoria with engineer Alex O’Gorman. It was a chance to experiment and make an album rid of pressures with her musical family, an album she vowed she wanted to make before starting her own family.
Just My Luck emotionally and sonically ranges from fun and upbeat with numbers like ‘Sell You The Sun’ drawing on influences such as The Beatles and Wilco to the heart wrenching closer ‘Bereaved’. Batt expresses, “I feel like there is a little something for everyone on this album, the first half is more upbeat and punchy and then it takes a more melancholy turn towards the end. This is my third album and I just really wanted to have fun with my band, take away the pressures and just have a great time creating.”
Tune in all this week to hear tracks from Just My Luck, and PBS Members have the chance to win a copy of the album on vinyl: simply email your name and membership number to before midnight Sunday November 3. Please note vinyl giveaways must be picked up from the station in Collingwood.
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TOP TRACKS WE'RE LOVING THIS WEEK
Sharon Van Etten & The Attatchment Theory - 'Afterlife'
Tiana Khasi - 'Good As It Gets'
Richard Spaven - 'Find Peace Within'
30/70 - 'Misrepresented (30/70 Jungle Flip)'
Svaneborg Kardyb - 'Cycles'
Joshua Idehen - 'Mum Does The Washing'
ad zee - 'Blinked'
Nat Grant - 'Inner World'
Winter McQuinn, Acacia Pip - 'Working On Me'
A. Swayze & The Ghosts - 'Tell You All The Time'
