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Bertie Blackman delivers pop music with depth. Her voice is seductive, her lyrics are inventive and honest and she mesmerizes as a live performer. “When I’m playing music, I just disappear into what’s going on,” she says, “it all just sort of channels through.”
The album, 'Secrets and Lies', first single ‘heart’ is a pulsating rhythmic track that buzzes with a fusion of tribal beats and acid-Motown grooves. 'heart' was released in March 2009 and was added to high rotation on Triple J and across the board on commercial radio network Nova. Altogether 'heart' was the 4th most added song on Australian radio in its premiere week of release. ‘heart’ was also an Australian iTunes Single of the Week in April and received more than 17,000 downloads, one of the nation’s most downloaded Singles of the Week of all-time. The album was presented as a Triple J Feature Album received widespread critical acclaim.
‘A huge shot in the arm for smart, strange, subversive, envelope-pushing pop’.
(The Herald Sun - May 2009) |
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