There’s no other artist quite like Alex Lahey. At once bubbly and boisterous, she rounds out her palette of prickly indie-pop flavours with a uniquely punchy, tinnie-swinging larrikin spirit. Rarely does the Naarm/Melbourne native take herself too seriously, with songs often (gently) self-deprecating and almost always steered by her staunch keenness to have fun with her music. Nowhere clearer is this than on her crash-hot third album, The Answer Is Always Kes, where she riffs on the trials and tribulations of being a queer stoner in your mid-twenties, stumbling up the staircase that modern life in Australia.
But while it is a quintessential Alex Lahey album, feels distinctly it’s more daring and explorative saw her open up creatively with new minds.
