It’s been a storied 15 years for Melbourne-native folk goddess Liz Stringer, with a string of critically cherished studio and live albums, a devoted cult following on local shores (though as NME’s David James Young attests, “she deserves her own megachurch”) and a phenomenal collaborative project with fellow indie-rockers Mia Dyson and Jen Cloher (nonchalantly dubbed Dyson Stringer Cloher). But despite already establishing a remarkable legacy, it’s on Stringer’s newest effort, First Time Really Feeling - her first solo full-length in half a decade - that she truly opens herself up to the world. In more ways than one, you could call it the debut album from Liz Stringer 2.
On a sonic wavelength, is Stringer’s sharpest, crispiest and most instantly earwormish effort - the soundscapes are cool and colourful and cheery is apt title.
