Australian-based folk singer Leah Senior silences audiences with vivid lyricism and a voice that soars with a disarmingly honest Sandy Denny-like clarity. Leah Senior effortlessly weaves together spring-baroque pop with crisply picked, wistful folk. Her fourth album The Music That I Make (2023, Poison City Records) reveals Leah at her most intimate, her songs a cycle of vulnerable meditations on what it means to create. The Music That I Make transports the listener to her sandstone shack in Anglesea, where autumn British folk meets rain streaked AM radio. The album was recorded at home with her long-time collaborator Jesse Williams and features a band of esteemed musicians Jack Robbins (Forever Son), Luke Brennan (Big Smoke, Truly Holy), her sister Andi and of course Jesse.
The Music That I Make made 3 Triple R and RtrFM album of the week as well as receiving praise from Rush Magazine, NME, Shindig! (UK), New Commute(USA) and Raven Sings The Blue (USA). The album was nominated for the Australian Music Prize and Music Victorias Best Folk Album.
Leah’s previous three albums The Passing Scene, Pretty Faces and Summer’s On The Ground were released through Flightless Records. An auspicious late night encounter with King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard saw Leah Senior joining their independent label. In 2022 Leah and her band joined King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard on a national month long tour of USA/Canada, performing at iconic venues including Red Rocks and The Greek Theatre. Senior’s distinctive voice has featured on a number of King Gizzard records including the apocalyptic album Murder of The Universe, as the omnipresent female narrator. Early 2020, Senior joined members of King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard to rewrite the soundtrack for cult classic Suspiria and perform it live at Hamer Hall.
"Leah Senior is an amazing folk singer, very, very talented, and nothing like King Gizz's music at all. her songs equally terrifying, joyous, sad and exciting. We get chills watching her perform"-King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard.
Hailed by critics as a divine masterpiece, her previous album The Passing Scene lilts between spring time baroque-pop and 70s folk. The Passing Scene effortlessly weaves together themes of impermanence, the natural world, loss and ultimately hope.
“This is a wonderful record that has been thought about in high detail and executed with an immaculate, artistic sensibility from start to finish. The songs present on The Passing Scene are timeless. 9.5/10” Beat Magazine
Leah Senior’s second album Pretty Faces was recorded and produced with Joe Walker (King Gizzard) and a band featuring Jesse Williams on keys/guitar, Michael Cavanagh on drums, Alex Bleakley (Sal Wonder) on bass and her sister Andi on harmonies. The album was nominated for Best Folk And Roots Album at The Age Music Victoria Awards.
“Enchanting..Recalling Joni Mitchell playfulness through cosy folk, minimalism”-Rolling Stone Australia.
Leah Senior's first album Summer’s On The Ground was recorded with Nick Huggins and Mark Lang (Skipping Girl Vinegar) and reveals a haunting and intimate storyteller, Rolling Stone giving the album four stars, saying “this is insular music, akin to eavesdropping on someone else’s prettily conveyed thoughts”. The album was nominated for the Australian Music Prize as well as Best Folk and Roots Album for the Age Victoria Music Awards.
Leah Senior’s captivating live performances have seen her supporting international artists including Wilco, Calexico, Jessica Pratt and Bedouine. Leah Senior has performed extensively throughout Australia and internationally playing at major festivals including Golden Plains, Boogie and Port Fairy Folk Festival as well as Desert Daze (USA), Levitation (USA) and OOAM (Switzerland). In 2020 Leah was nominated for Best Solo Act and Best Song in the Music Victoria Awards.
In 2022 all three of Leah’s album’s were rereleased as part of a boxset through Flightless Records.
