Australian Guitar

SOARING INTO A NEW SCENE

For the past 30 years, Vikki Thorn has been known best for work as an acoustic strummer and singer in the legendary folk-rock vehicle The Waifs. It’s been a fruitful journey thus far, and one she’s enamoured to continue – eight acclaimed studio albums, countless sold-out treks across the country and the globe, and an adoring legion of fans that never fail to flail when Thorn bore her twee and twangy magic… It’s not a bad life to lead. But Thorn has long dreamt of spreading her wings and soaring beyond what’s possible The Waifs – to explore an exciting new corner of the rock ‘n’ roll spectrum she’s always admired, but never had the ability to embrace as an artist herself.

Cue: , a stomping, swampy, hard-rocking blues record that allowed Thorn – alongside longstanding Waifs bassist Ben

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