Tara Simmons

It’s been an eye-opening and back-breakingly busy 12 months or so for Simmons who began her current journey with producer Yanto Browning (The Medics, The Jungle Giants, Kate Miller-Heidke) on her last release, an EP called All You Can which spawned two radio singles – All You Can and I Cannot Be Saved. This EP was the first time Simmons has ever enlisted a producer (her debut Spilt Milk was a self-produced effort) and, embracing the collaborative-environment, she continued the relationship into this project.

With an evolving taste in music and its production, and a healthy sense of inspiration from indie-pop’s unique and edgy Scandinavian songstresses, Simmons realised while performing one day that she needed a change. This decisive moment led her to her start making music that not only awakened a more daring streak from within herself, but also challenges her place in the country’s indie-pop scene.

‘Be Gone’ is the result of this attitude and the first single lifted from the singer’s forthcoming second record, which she describes sonically as “a steam train… with a few quieter moments”. The single has already garnered spot rotation on triple j and now features a striking new video thanks to Brisbane directors Derryn Watts & Alex Barnes.

LINKS:

tarasimmons.com
facebook.com/tarasimmonsmusic

DISCOGRAPHY:

Be Gone (Single)
Released November 2011

01. Be Gone
02. Honey

02. When You Say That I Don’t Care About You
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All You Can (EP)
Released November 2010

01. The Fundamentalist
02. All You Can
03. Rosemary
04. I Cannot Be Saved
05. The Worst Of It

02. When You Say That I Don’t Care About You
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Spilt Milk (Album)
Released February 2009

01. We Are
02. When You Say That I Don’t Care About You
03. Everything But The Kitchen Sink
04. Shake
05. Domino
06. Meet In The Middle
07. You And Me
08. Long After The Boy
09. Silent
10. The Worst Of Itm