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about
Queer indie-folk artist Alice Cotton is carving up the country’s regional music scene with her infectious and off-kilter music.
Cotton, on her latest single My Turn, says “The more I pursue music the more I feel disempowered and boggled by the industry. This song is about claiming space to be an artist and a writer and that I do it for my own sake, not to play the game. So, it’s about defiance and staying grounded - I do this because I have something to say. I want to be like Mavis Staples, old and joyful, pushing into my 80s and writing and performing again and again”
Growing up in Australia’s tropical Darwin, Northern Territory, Alice Cotton would write songs as a child about her everyday world; mouldy pillows and fly-screen doors. Her family encouraged her, with her father marking his daily routine by the schedule of radio shows, her mother showing her to write poetry as Tracey Chapman had.
The independent and community-minded artist is known for her playful and thoughtful lyrics about family dogs, queer love, and a constant day-dreaming of food.
And it’s not just about her own music. The community-mind artist and Registered Music Therapist was the recent recipient of an Arts Access Award, commending for her work providing professional development and creative performance workshops for neuro-diverse musicians in Darwin.
“Cotton has the quality that Paul Kelly and Stella Donnelly have whereby it seemingly feels like she’s narrating the mundane moment in life and relationships that we’ve all been through and then – POW – you’re hit with the depth and breadth of her storytelling” – Nkechi Anele, triple j
lyrics
LYRICS:
I wanna walk in the sun, I wanna walk in the sun
Find the path that leads back to you
Know that my turn is not done, know that my turn is not done
Scared to lose what I have not yet won
Ooh
I’m scared of what I don’t say, scared of what I let drift away
All the songs, the words I didn’t write down today
I follow, then what have I found, If I reach then you rear underground
Take a stance, a chance I can feel to the truth
Ooh
Ooh
Know that my turn is not done, No, it has only now just begun
Know that my turn is not done, No, it has only now just begun
Know that my turn is not done, No, it has only now just begun
Know that my turn is not done, No, it has only now just begun
Know that my turn is not done, No, it has only now just begun
Know that I’m walking away back to you
And I’ll stop when I got nothing left to say
And I’ll stop when I got nothing left to say
Aah
credits
released November 4, 2022
Written by Alice Cotton. Produced by Nick Huggins.
Alice Cotton - guitars, vocals
Holly Thomas - drums, percussion
Tim Baker - bass, guitars
Phoebe Stretton-Smith - vocals
Stefanie Zappino - vocals
Zoë Kalenderidis - vocals
Nick Huggins - recording, mixing, mastering
Callum Elliot - track artwork
Additional artwork by CJ Fraser-Bell.
With thanks to Bailey Tambling, Mel Hansen and Jemima Saunders for their help in writing and arranging the harmonies.
I would like to pay my respects to the elders of the Larrakia people, the rightful custodians of the land on which I live and write. Sovereignty was never ceded.
Infectious and off-kilter music from the tropical North.
Alice Cotton has been compared to
Australian artists 'Paul Kelly and Stella Donnelly…you're hit with the depth and breadth of her storytelling' - Nkechi Anele, triple j
To Perth Before The Border Closes is one of my favourite songs - spacious, driving, and uncomplicated, it gives this great push of energy that is beautifully juxtaposed with Jacklin's gentle vocals Alice Cotton
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