Lucy Wise - Yearning EP (2024)

After winning Best Folk Work at The 2023 Music Victoria Awards for her recent album, Into The Blue, singer-songwriter Lucy Wise releases her new acoustic EP, Yearning.

Lucy considers yearning to be one of the deepest emotions humans can feel, and she explores its many forms in this shining handful of songs. She tells stories about how yearning shows up when we lose someone, when we're not loved back, when we're dreaming of our future, or on a walk in the rain.

Yearning has frequented Lucy's songs, and traditional folk songs Lucy grew up singing. Perhaps yearning is always somewhere deep in us - even during moments of joy, a part of us longs for that joy to last, or to come back. For Lucy, yearning is fundamental to her creativity, a thread running through her music.

Produced by Luke Plumb, the EP has a warm, inviting contemporary folk sound that draws on traditional folk, roots and pop music influences. The first track, “Handsome Molly”, is an old time American folk song Lucy has loved singing for many years. Throughout Yearning, Dancing rhythms, playful percussion, soul-stirring strings, piano and vocal harmonies set a vibrant scene for Lucy's moving vocal performances.