Artist Profile – Plum Green
by Sarah Kidd
What’s in a name?
When it comes to the artist Plum Green, the answer is not the expected. While she is certainly a talented singer and musician; she is also an artist whose very heart has been steeped in the essence of what it means to be a performer. Her ability to bring forth music that is not only thought-provoking but relatable is luminescent yet often tinged with a far darker side. A fact that anyone who is an admirer of the track ‘I Hope You Die’ – which has now finally been captured on her latest album Sound Recordings after being a live fan favourite for years – will understand.
Plum Green is both other-worldly and of this world, her very first breath drawn in a squat in Brixton in which she was born. Growing up in New Zealand and currently residing in Australia each transition in her life has added yet another thread to the tapestry that is her soul from which her music pours forth. Having travelled rather extensively through Europe while touring, she has added only more intricacies, which feed through into her ever evolving compendium of melodies.
What started out with an EP release – Green’s first offering turning heads – soon morphed into three. The release of her debut album 2012’s Rushes seeing her compared to the likes of Fiona Apple, P.J. Harvey and even Amanda Palmer.
With now a second album to her name, Green has amassed a worthy body of work, each recording physically capturing songs with lyrics that at their core contain an intelligent consciousness not often found; ‘Baby Bird’ the first single from her new release a prime example of this. Her work has now found itself, it has matured along with its creator.
A siren trapped in a mortal body, Green’s music often harbours a razor-sharp edge; it’s provocative in nature just as she is. Her body, her sexuality is her vessel and she is afraid of neither. Overtones of grunge with heady notes of folk and wisps of post-rock meld together, her songs often heading off the beaten path and into the shadows where creatures with teeth lie in wait…
However, where Plum Green really comes into her own is within the live setting; queen of commanding a room, her shows are intimate affairs where time just stops, her sheer ability to hold an audience with just her voice and a guitar something that must be witnessed in person to truly comprehend. Accompanied by both her band and her guitarist Daniel Cross there is an intensity to proceedings, Green and Cross often working together in a subconscious state of euphonious symbiosis.
So, step inside the shrouded realms and let Plum Green’s storytelling envelop you as she takes you on a journey…
Plum Green performs tonight (1st February 2019) at Auckland’s Whammy Bar alongside His Masters Voice and Shoddy. Tickets are still available from StickyTickets or on the door if not sold out earlier.
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