NT queer indie-rock artist Alice Cotton reveals new single with off-kilter anthem ‘You Drive a Hilux’ recorded with Gormie (Angie McMahon).

You Drive a Hilux

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"Cotton pens a beautifully tender and emotive track inviting us into her reflection" - Tone Deaf

"A beautiful and delicate writer..such a great track, love it" - Nkechi Anele, triple j

"a nuanced way of viewing the world has clearly produced an artist and performer of rare qualities ... Alice’s approach is insightful" - Foldback Media

LYRICS

You’re a headstrong woman
Look a lot like your ma
You make me want to play out of time, want to sing out of tune
On that old-time song

Been four months, got me wondering
Should I let sleeping dogs alone?
Pulling back and forth
When the one I love is not at home

Oooh
Ooh

I want to stamp my feet like a child
Say it ain’t so
Want to screech and scream, kick up a fuss
And I’ll refuse to let you go

Been four months, got me wondering
Should I let sleeping dogs alone
Pulling back and forth
When the one I love is not at home

Where did it all go wrong?
Where did it all go wrong?

Take some time, it's gonna
Take some time, yes I’ll
Take some time and that’s alright

Take some time, you gotta
Take some time, yes I’ll
Take some time and that’s alright
That’s alright

Darlin’ I don’t know how we fit together any more

credits
released February 5, 2021
Written by Alice Cotton.

Lead vocals and guitar: Alice Cotton
Backing vocals: Stefanie Zappino, Melanie Hansen, Phoebe Stretton-Smith
Drums: Holly Thomas
Strings: Pepita Emmerichs
Bass: Alexander O'Gorman

Recorded by Matt Cunliffe (Subsonic) and Jono Steer (The Perch Recording Studio) in Darwin and Castlemaine, Australia.

Additional recording by Alexander O'Gorman, Stefanie Zappino, Melanie Hansen, Phoebe Stretton-Smith and Schina Coy (Melbourne), and Pepita Emmerichs (Scotland).

Mixing and mastering by Isaac Barter.

Created with support from Regional Arts Fund and ArtsNT.

Written and recorded on Larrakia, Bunurong Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung, and Dja Dja Wurrung Country, where sovereignty was never ceded.

Sleeping Dogs

Australian songwriter Alice Cotton has been compared to Australian artists 'Paul Kelly and Stella Donnelly…you're hit with the depth and breadth of her storytelling' (Nkechi Anele, triple j). 

Photography thanks to Raych Younger (RachelRachel)

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