Tips its hat to his love of reggae and blues as much as it feels palpably Record you learn a little bit here and there,” says Rudd, whose new album “I’ve had a great career of mucking around with different sounds… so every (2004), Food In The Belly (2005), White Moth (2007), Dark Shades Of Blue (2008), Koonyum Sun (2010), Spirit Bird (2012), and his first album with The United Nations, Nanna (2015).

Release seven studio LPs over the next thirteen years: Solace In 2002 with the now classic album To Let, before going on to Hailing from Australia’s surf hotspot Torquay, Rudd kickstarted his career Where I’ve learned a bunch of lessons and I’ve been shown a bunch of things I feel like I’ve come to the end of that chapter “Life feels strong and solid for me now… and this record is in a different Spiritual self-awakening, Storm Boy arrives at the conclusion. And if Spirit Bird signalled the beginning of his “It’s definitely a theme on the record,”Īgrees Rudd. Things that “have made sense” along the way. The last five or six years of his journey, his “awakening” and of all the Six years have passed since Rudd’s last solo release, Spirit Bird,Īnd a lot of things have happened in that time. Me he’s watched me grow / Through those rainy days and those rocky roads.” Just like he knows / And I call a ride back yes I’m home / He’s been with Line where Rudd’s spirituality really comes to the fore: “Kookaburra calls One specific moment seems to sum up the record for Rudd, an album which heĭescribes as “pondering” and “more personal” than previous efforts. Surf and strumming his guitar, while booming bass drums amp up the track’s Video for ‘Walk Away’, Rudd is captured swimming in lakes, catching the Stability at their most powerful and fundamental. It’s just one of many highlights on a record that celebrates strength and With a cup of tea / Watch the movement of the tide in the gentle breeze,” Outdoors: “Freedom of the heart is what we crave / When we sit by the river ‘Storm Boy’, Rudd sends out a postcard of a sun-drenched life lived Backed by the gentle strum of acoustic guitar, on The Australian multi-instrumentalist’s new album title track bestĮncapsulates this idea. Result is a personal sound that strikes a universal note. Environmental work,Īctivism, veganism, spiritualism, surfing, family camping trips in the bushĪnd dog walks on the beach everything Rudd does, he pours into song. He says of his sublime and soaring indie-folk. “I’m literally just singing about the things that are going on around me,” For Xavier Rudd, writing music and living his life are one and the same.

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