KATE MILLER HEIDKE RELEASES ‘LITTLE ROOTS, LITTLE SHOOTS’

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9 Oct

Kate Miller-Heidke today releases ‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’ – the fourth single to be released from her forthcoming 5th studio album ‘Child In Reverse’- to be released October 30.

“This song is about habits that often start unconsciously, and gradually begin to take over who you are. I wanted to write a dark mirror of From Little Things, Big Things Grow. The ever-present forces of gradualism are lying in wait, stalking, and they eventually get us all.” Say Kate of ‘Little Roots, Little Shoots’

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After being revealed as fan favourite, The Queen, on Australia’s ‘The Masked Singer’ last month, the internationally acclaimed Brisbane singer-songwriter today will release her 5th studio album Child In Reverse on October 30. It is her first pop album in six years and possibly her most pop album yet.

Produced and recorded in Melbourne by Evan Klar, Child In Reverse is 11 songs sculpted into 3- to 4-minute shots of love and fear, memory and empathy, rage and redemption. It's an album of airborne melodies, sinuous grooves, brilliant textures and, as always, a little more gravity than her feather-light voice implies.

"I keep getting drawn back to pop music," Kate says, despite recent triumphs in opera (The Rabbits), musical theatre (Muriel's Wedding) and screen (The Divorce). "The minimalism, the economy… I find that incredibly rewarding and challenging. It's like a quest to nail the perfect pop song. When it can be done, for me, as a listener, it's my favourite music."

The quest yielded its first treasures in the winter of 2019, when Kate broke from her comfort zone to work with a series of strangers on an APRA SongHubs writing weekend on the Gold Coast. "The thought of that has terrified me my whole life," she says, but despite her fears about songs compromised and diluted by committee, she hit gold on day one with her production team producer Evan Klar and backing vocalist Hailey Collier.

The album title Child In Reverse is a lyric from one of the key tracks, an open-hearted song of resilience called Child of Divorce. "I realised when I looked back at all the songs that there was kind of a thread running through: it was about unlearning, unravelling of old habit and old thought patterns," Kate says.

"After something like that," says Kate, "everything matters less and anything seems possible." As she sings in Child of Divorce, "I still believe in what we could become."