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Media - Articles.SUNDAY HERALD SUN Sometimes albums are worth the wait. The delay of her first album in three years has been driving local singer/songwriter Monique Brumby "crazy", but what a gem it is. Great sounds, engaging tunes, insightful lyrics, an impressive array of big-name guests and a killer first single called As Sweet As You Are ensure that Brumby's new album Signal Hill (Shock Records) is one of the better Australian releases of 2002. Brumby glows when speaking of finally seeing her CD launched.
Brumby first came to public attention with her 1996 debut album Thylacine (Sony Records). It was followed by the 1998 Eventide EP. She has won two ARIA awards - Best New Artist in 1996 and Best Female Artist in 1997 - and her song Change In Me was nominated for Australian Song of the Year at the 1998 ARIA awards. After that things went a bit pear-shaped. Brumby says it took her some time to free herself of a contract with Sony Records. With that done she started her own label, Little Wind, and found major distribution with Shock Records. She then had to produce her album as an independent artist, but says that she has been blessed with a great band in the form of Maryanne Window (bass), Tom Rouch (guitar) and Shamus Goble (drums). Brumby admits that her single As Sweet as You Are is partly about the music industry. "It is a saying what both my grandmothers used to say to me," she says. "It is an uplifting song - I am sick of hearing negative songs. I suppose it is about being true to yourself and sticking at it." |
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"It has been killing me for the last three years to have people come up after a show and ask for a new CD," she says. "I was sad and then angry about the long delay, but I just pulled myself together and found the strength to finish it. "To finally have this CD out, which features 14 different musicians and four different sound engineers, well, it is just great."