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Georgia Mooney returns with "Australian Crawl", announces second album Private Theatre
Georgia Mooney, Sydney-born singer-songwriter based in London, releases new single "Australian Crawl" on 10 November and announces her second album Private Theatre for April 2027. The track, produced by Marcus Hamblett, layers dulcimer, synth and bass clarinet into a bittersweet folk song about unrequited love, following her acclaimed 2023 debut Full of Moon which earned ARIA and AIR nominations.
GEORGIA MOONEY Returns with new single "Australian Crawl"
Announces Second Album Private Theatre for April 2027
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If a pre-Raphaelite painting had a pop career or a Victorian ghost discovered indie-folk, that’s Georgia Mooney.
Today the Sydney-born, London-based singer-songwriter announces her second album,Private Theatre, out April 2027. It’s led by first single “Australian Crawl” (10 November), which turns romantic rejection into a grand gesture in mesmeric maxi-folk.
Mooney once made a grand declaration of love to a friend, gave him a fortnight to think it over, and arranged to meet beneath a fig tree for his answer. He arrived late and turned her down. Naturally, she wrote a song about it. Named after the swimming stroke, “Australian Crawl” is a bittersweet, driving song about telling someone you love them, “knowing it’s not coming back to you.”
“We are led to believe that to declare our feelings is... well, a mortifying display of vulnerability and earnestness,” Mooney says. “But I think we do ourselves a great disservice in thinking that way. I strongly believe that to open yourself up to loving someone is the noblest of offerings. A gift worthy of reverence!”
The song’s musical colours, with shades of early Martha Wainwright and Sharon Van Etten, bleed together like taillights in the rain. “Still it felt good to say it... touch the ocean floor... push off and Australian Crawl."
It was recorded with UK producer Marcus Hamblett (Laura Marling, Villagers, The Staves), and analogue and electronic textures are layered throughout. Hamblett’s vast synth collection meets Mooney’s Appalachian dulcimer, an instrument she won in a raffle. Piano dances over bass clarinet, and a soaring guitar solo bursts through the surface of the water.
The music video brings the album cover to life, with Mooney’s floating head singing in a miniature theatre she crafted and hand-painted herself.
Mooney wrote Private Theatre in six weeks, cocooned in a snowbound house on Prince Edward Island, Canada. The “one woman show” of a record, draws on six years of real-life vignettes gathered while moving back and forth between Australia and the UK. Some are funny, some poignant, and all are brought together with an extraordinary lightness of touch.
It follows her acclaimed 2023 debut Full of Moon, a lush dream-folk record that earned ARIA, AIR and Australian Folk Music Award nominations. Since then, she has toured extensively across Australia, North America and beyond, sharing stages with Passenger, Martha Wainwright, Kate Miller-Heidke, Matt Corby, Tim Minchin, Bernard Fanning, John Smith and others.
Mooney first made her name in ARIA Award-winning all-female folk band All Our Exes Live In Texas, touring with Backstreet Boys, Nathaniel Rateliff and Midnight Oil. As a solo artist, her career reaches well beyond the usual album-and-tour cycle. Her live shows borrow the interactive storytelling of standup comedy. She co-created the Fwends podcast with comedians Rhys and Kyran Nicholson, which Apple Podcasts named one of its 10 best of 2025, and she hosts the much-loved variety series Supergroup.
Private Theatre romanticises the drama of the everyday, and “Australian Crawl” makes the case for the impassioned soliloquy. Who doesn’t like to hear one?
“Australian Crawl” - Out Now!
Private Theatre is out in April 2027. Pre-save here.
