I first got my ears around Megan Washington (also known by her mononymous last name Washington) with Clementine back in 2008.
I Believe You Liar was a huge record in 2010, giving us five sing-a-long hits, Sunday Best, The Hardest Part, Clementine, Holy Moses and the title track I Believe You Liar.
There There was Megan's second album released back in 2014, so it's been a long wait for Batflowers. The album features twelve new songs including singles Dark Parts, Kiss Me Like We're Gonna Die and Batflowers.
The Guardian described the album in a recent review as "...you’ll be spellbound, your finger hovering above the “repeat” button, your brain needing to hear more."
Megan herself describes the new record as “The album in full is very narrative and to me it works like the soundtrack to a musical. Aside from the actual songs, there is a lot of sound design and audio-cinema including a thunderstorm, birdsong, dreamscapes and 500 year-old church bells. It was written and recorded all over the world from Joshua Tree in California, Switzerland, Berlin, Adelaide, and finished during lockdown on Minjerribah (Stradbroke Island). I also had to record some vocals inside a rental car...”
So if like me Megan has fallen a bit off your radar, it's time to reunite yourself with her new music and some older familiar favourites as below.
Next Sunday the Sunday Spotlight will take a wee break to celebrate the twenty biggest songs of Winter 2020. What a weird three months Winter 2020 was, are the songs equally as strange? Find out next Sunday.
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