Adam Newling
Independent Australian singer/songwriter Adam Newling capped off 2023 with the stunning release of his eight-track EP, Dorothy Painted Portraits.
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Independent Australian singer/songwriter Adam Newling capped off 2023 with the stunning release of his eight-track EP, Dorothy Painted Portraits.
Newling has issued three singles in 2023 – Round The Houses (featuring acclaimed Scandinavian/English singer/songwriter, Kristina Karsegård), the folkish and gently anthemic Ocean and Difference Of Opinion, a song entangling overheard stories told by the locals in a country town.
The three songs are now accompanied by five other such slices of life on the new Dorothy Painted Portraits EP.
“The unity of the eight songs comes from really focusing over the course of writing the EP when I was living all up and down the East Coast in some pretty remote-ish areas,” Newling says. “I just tried to really encapsulate my journey of where it was, and the stories that I heard.”
Adam Newling loves a good story and listening to people tell them. The Dorothy Painted Portraits EP echoes the reveling and reckoning of everyday life.
“There’s a bit of everyone there, and there’s a bit of everyone for everyone in there,” he says. “It’s just me recycling the stories I hear in pubs and small towns and refurbishing them into songs for more people down the line.”
Since the release of his first EP, Half Cut and Dangerous, Newling has chalked up quite a few achievements. His runaway single, Sweetness, came in at #98 in triple j’s Hottest #100 for 2021, he completed a US tour with Skeggs and supported Amy Shark during her national tour in 2022.
Following his acclaimed appearances at Laneway 2023 and SXSW Sydney Adam Newling will be busy touring the East Coast into 2024 and ready to launch a whole new era with the release of Dorothy Painted Portraits.