Markus Hamence is chatting with Danielle Caruana from Mama Kin Spender.
The mega talented ARIA-nominated, WAM award winning duo Mama Kin Spender, Mama Kin – aka Danielle Caruana and Dingo Spender have come together to share Arrows, another truly powerful taste of their forthcoming album Promises that is due out Aug 15.
A bewitching bullseye balancing soul folk, raw relatability and beguiling melodies, the new single Arrows out today from Mama Kin Spender, beautifully sets up the album that is nearing release. And with this single and album announce, comes a run of national album launch shows through September and October, hitting the road to mesmerise audiences in Pomona, Murwillumbah, Brisbane, Melbourne, Archie’s Creek, Belgrave, Sydney, Milton and Dashville. Opening with gritty guitars, oozing harmonies and plenty of elegant swagger, Arrows evolves into a powerful yet delicate outing, wearing its heart defiantly on its sleeve as Mama Kin Spender detail bad behaviour in relationships.
Arrows explores, as the band puts it, “the drifting apart through small acts of carelessness, and yet somehow aching to connect. Near misses – every attempt landing awkwardly, landing wrong, lashing out, sly evasive remarks eroding the fabric of love.” And wowee, the album is incredibly powerful – very introspective themes, best described by Danielle about the relationship with her husband John Butler (who also has a new record touching on these exact themes from his perspective due out September): “These are songs hewn from real life journeys,” shares Danielle. “Bruises, Shame, Rage, Desire, Contempt, Bad Behaviour. Death by a thousand cuts of carelessness, small unkind moments, projections, stacked up and smothering the innocence of love’s true desire – to change the very shape of us.
This is a coming-of-age/coming-of-rage album. This is the doorway of the domestic debris that we accumulate, which ultimately needs to flush out to make way for who we might become as adults; real adults, responsible to ourselves and others, accountable, respectful, liberated from our child wounds and teenage tantrums.”
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