New Zealand-born, Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Sarah Mary Chadwick has released her seventh full-length album called Me And Ennui Are Friends Baby which is out via Ba Da Bing. Joined by long time production collaborators, It was mastered by David Walker at Stepford Audio and mixed & recorded by Geoff O’Connor at Vanity Lair
According to the press release, the new album is comprised entirely of minimal solo piano arrangements; Ennui is despondently clear-eyed and smirkingly self-deprecating, completing a trilogy of records that started with The Queen Who Stole The Sky and her only outing to date featuring a full band, Please Daddy.
Each record has followed Chadwick’s internal processing after a traumatic event, with Chadwick’s zeal for psychoanalysis front and center. On Ennui, Chadwick presents an exacting intensity with her choice to pare back to piano and vocals. It’s in this stark setting that she focuses on the attempt she made on her life in 2019.