Name: Elana Stone Album Launch
Start: 2024-11-21T19:00:00+11:00
End: 2024-11-21T21:00:00+11:00
Location: Smith's Alternative

$30/25
Smith's welcomes All Our Exes Live in Texas' Elana Stone to town for the launch of her new album 'Married to the Sound'.
Elana Stone is an ARIA Award-winning singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist that everyone in the music biz wants in their band! She's taken the stage with everyone from Midnight Oil to John Butler, Josh Pyke and comedy act Tripod. Her bluegrass quartet "All Our Exes are from Texas" earned her a global audience and her three (soon four!) solo albums, each traversing new genres, never fail to win critical acclaim.
“…..always compelling, moving across genres and emotional registers by turns powerful, theatrical and vulnerable.” – Sydney Morning Herald
“Elana is a wonderful songwriter and an incredible singer with the innate ability to create melodies that warm the heart.” – AU Review
“Elana Stone encompasses folk, modern electronica, indie pop and balladry, underpinned by Stone’s signature lyrical vulnerability and ear for melody.” – Beat Magazine
“interesting piece of music that shows the artist's immense talent and leaves us wanting to listen to it again, immediately.” – Double J
Elana's new songs venture into a wide range of themes such as finding love, motherhood against the backdrop of a worldwide pandemic, climate change, social/political polarisation, friendship, love, loss, and lockdown - all served on a crispy bed of synth pop, hazy guitar and to-die-for vocal harmonies with a side of 70’s drums and in your face, fuzz bass.
“This album has been 5 years in the making. It covers a lot of emotional ground for me. This is not a jazz album. This is not a folk album. Think Billy Joel's piano meets Kate Bush's vocals meets Ben Folds Five's harmonies but with Unknown Mortal Orchestra or Tame Impalal as the house band. It’s indie pop! It’s a follow up to my 2015 EP Kintsugi and I can’t wait for you to hear it.” Elana Stone
Coming off the back of a massive national tour supporting Missy Higgins’ on her 20th Anniversary Tour for The Sound of White, Elana will be taking centre stage and hitting the road in November 2024 to celebrate the release of Married To The Sound. Get your tickets!
Alice Cottee’s soaring vocals and ‘meat and three veg’ guitar tone suggests she grew up on a farm with a large paper shredder. Over two decades, she has fronted bands Dollface, No Hausfrau and most recently punk-rock band Glitoris. With the latter amping the ante as Keven 007 - a fast and furious not-so-secret agent tearing up the patriarchy through her bizarre stage antics.
Alice’s raw songwriting and velvet-coated croon has penetrated hearts in venues and festivals around the world and at home including Woodford Festival, WOMADelaide and The National Folk Festival.