Renee is a self-confessed nomad. Growing up in the leafy suburbs of Sydney, followed by a move to rural Japan post university provided her an insatiable desire to travel the world. With regular trips to South America, Europe and most recently northern China, she developed a strong resistance to settling permanently in one place.
Being a proud child of the 80's, she has a particular fondness for the likes of Roxette, The Police, The Indigo Girls, INXS, Womack & Womack & George Michael. She dreams of one day creating a pop hit which combines the writing genius of David Bowie and the heart of Joan Armatrading.
These days, Renee is recognised for her smoky, soulful voice, deliciously ambient finger picking melodies, and at times honestly heartbreaking lyrics. With two EPs and a recently released single, ‘Out Their Windows’ in her discography, Renee’s capacity for expressing raw emotions with intense vulnerability is well known.
'Out Their Windows', released on February 24, 2021, reflects the vastly different world we inhabited in 2020.
An observation of life in a time of pandemic, Renee explores the conflict between keeping ourselves safe from the threats of the outside world and maintaining the connectedness we crave in order to thrive. The song focuses, in particular, on the plight of some of society’s most vulnerable: the elderly who have been kept safe, but carefully isolated, in residential care facilities.
Renee's 2nd single of 2021, 'Fly Me Back' releases on March 31st.
For Renee, to ‘fly back’ is to depart the emotional precipice, to escape the hold of dark thoughts and moods,
returning to a place where curiosity replaces judgment and vitality replaces languor.
A place where well-being is restored.
“The point,” says Renee, “is that sometimes we feel like we’re in the grip of something dark and malignant,
when really it’s us that’s doing the gripping. And if, in those moments, we can release our hold, we create room for lighter, healthier things to enter.”
By Dan Thurston-Crow
Being a proud child of the 80's, she has a particular fondness for the likes of Roxette, The Police, The Indigo Girls, INXS, Womack & Womack & George Michael. She dreams of one day creating a pop hit which combines the writing genius of David Bowie and the heart of Joan Armatrading.
These days, Renee is recognised for her smoky, soulful voice, deliciously ambient finger picking melodies, and at times honestly heartbreaking lyrics. With two EPs and a recently released single, ‘Out Their Windows’ in her discography, Renee’s capacity for expressing raw emotions with intense vulnerability is well known.
'Out Their Windows', released on February 24, 2021, reflects the vastly different world we inhabited in 2020.
An observation of life in a time of pandemic, Renee explores the conflict between keeping ourselves safe from the threats of the outside world and maintaining the connectedness we crave in order to thrive. The song focuses, in particular, on the plight of some of society’s most vulnerable: the elderly who have been kept safe, but carefully isolated, in residential care facilities.
Renee's 2nd single of 2021, 'Fly Me Back' releases on March 31st.
For Renee, to ‘fly back’ is to depart the emotional precipice, to escape the hold of dark thoughts and moods,
returning to a place where curiosity replaces judgment and vitality replaces languor.
A place where well-being is restored.
“The point,” says Renee, “is that sometimes we feel like we’re in the grip of something dark and malignant,
when really it’s us that’s doing the gripping. And if, in those moments, we can release our hold, we create room for lighter, healthier things to enter.”
By Dan Thurston-Crow