BLACK HEART, by Miriam Clancy
In late 2019, when expat Kiwi Miriam Clancy returned to New Zealand from her Pennsylvania home of five years to promote her third album, Astronomy, she was a very different artist from the singer-songwriter of previous albums.
Astronomy was abrasive electro-pop-cum-Goth rock, and solo on stage she hammered foot pedals in an extraordinarily physical performance.
“I got really frustrated with the acoustic thing, which at the time. “[But] I heard people saying there were too many women acoustic singer-song-writers in New Zealand, and I was like, ‘Yeah, okay. But that’s not all I can do.’ ”
